Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41c6f1f7f232c359…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-08-20 06:26:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ebcc75e5d4a05b180c758b87588aa8bf SHA-1: 3044c6f8080f08a2a7c0477da8d0ce4dcea1062a SHA-256: 41c6f1f7f232c359fe7976d2c6e1388165ac2972a9343cd99c42dc618304a62a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that is also flagged by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The presence of a large number of external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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/pify?keyword=bromoform+limit+in+drinking+water
    • http://mozona.deebeebooks.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070382/jinujegejiralip.pdf
    • http://files.shrubmadness.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775561/kefez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1376/6296/files/mutosirukisil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7568/2972/files/abdomen_agudo_gpc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2392/4376/files/xesovamamoxakopotaza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8281/7441/files/converter_to_word_free_download_full_version_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3159/2102/files/creative_writing_workbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3942/4663/files/61747410584.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2270/5055/files/11149497500.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9811/9071/files/ifrs_16_leases_illustrative_examples.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2619/4336/files/10485500894.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8672/5799/files/joxesokuxapuwufunuta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6150/1349/files/tiseveditesanudula.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_off00006e13.bin
75af1a4fcbbfdee1084da7ce76cd50eea0768a200e9b9b16a21cf023179c9dbf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E13 5252 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007feb.bin
a85e5b6e3a48ba7ce12f07290068b20fae895a5611d9bec8e3ae8bb77e813e17
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FEB 10352 bytes