Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41da744ed702b868…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-24 19:16:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 13d3e41e9694ed44ae9975fbf8049d4f SHA-1: cd91e2f30576b33d0b0c273f1c1590a107046a2a SHA-256: 41da744ed702b8682849771859f6090b2703bdcb523aebfa0604eb1b7efbf95b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that is also present in the heuristics. This suggests the primary goal is to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=thyroid+hormone+synthesis+and+secretion+pdf
    • http://batatimu.lisananni.ca/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/8249781.pdf
    • http://files.alpineanimalhospital.us/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408854/93807f4660.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/0522/2555/files/fajaxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3588/5721/files/36260449072.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8630/6710/files/kejomikosukidimaliwuvuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7926/2615/files/gebutudaravolawotux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2089/4886/files/nipamitisagofupari.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3905/5253/files/tezapusuruforu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7927/9527/files/vulazunowi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5353/0782/files/47579053393.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5302/1344/files/history_of_ancient_egypt_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7922/8837/files/kadav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0736/1703/files/xirix.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006426.bin
27292bf18dfae7bb8091e509441e38161f6637547cd96fad78efd2e60d3de411
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6426 5204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075b2.bin
3c0379247d1af93236a4e1c91f82f2460918302a2b37f8f619801ecfe686dbe8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75B2 9912 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009791.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9791 4324 bytes