Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 403fadd9978ae2f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-08-07 17:49:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 16a0a7a85af611822390a17a9aba4df4 SHA-1: 51ad4b20aaf5a27707cf4baecd39f4c2a8ffcc59 SHA-256: 403fadd9978ae2f27ac6ee49c7ed67127d020c60c8dec01305561028d324e8a6
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded URLs, many of which are structured to appear as book titles or manuals, suggesting an attempt to create an SEO link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, indicating a potential for malicious redirection. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=rosewill%20challenger%20black%20gaming%20atx%20mid%20tower%20computer%20case%20manual
    • http://punok.newchoicemusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438216/ceac343daea98dd.pdf
    • http://files.music2dance2djs.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969654/dagasupujujixugav.pdf
    • http://files.laspinashouses.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814601/5aa45f6414792d.pdf
    • http://files.tennesseeheartwood.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070602/piwakabatilefo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0760/5923/files/investments_bodie_kane_marcus_10th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0659/1127/files/capital_structure_puzzle.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4146/3204/files/60959867645.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0174/1463/files/99586145614.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4958/1730/files/73894412509.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0496/0676/files/jepaduvisapujibipedas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9376/2975/files/81425297433.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8626/3960/files/acuerdos_de_paz_guatemala.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8748/7385/files/wigef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6678/3899/files/mojilanitelefuxada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3313/2184/files/96272619815.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9384/3356/files/come_together_chords.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006e9d.bin
5e5560d34611e65f4ff4fdadc8565c9a1294ab7c9cb8ca38a54de4ba4a4ece52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E9D 5860 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008278.bin
82d6d738a79c25d672747ca9bb1dffe0acbf6cd9ca2da49cfee2335962d5ec53
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8278 15244 bytes