Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42c6aa42822c4455…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-09 08:10:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1400b86bcda94543a85f9dfa35e1a82e SHA-1: cc70cc1b5f4e0d3b43edd543f90f8278014aa382 SHA-256: 42c6aa42822c445571c6b9672bdc40d9b37115850983af0474d8ba9149b424da
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a critical heuristic for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure. It also contains a large number of embedded links, many of which are hosted on Shopify but point to a redirector service. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains garbled text but includes the URL that triggered the redirector heuristic, suggesting a lure to a malicious site.

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=manajemen+sumber+daya+manusia+perusahaan+pdf
    • http://files.northforkpoa.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712127/dekan.pdf
    • http://wafogudud.aumyogaannarbor.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070786/322401.pdf
    • http://tofapo.consciousjourney.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380600/5953780.pdf
    • http://vawaxen.linkhornparkpta.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164243/pimoxozunafuxiduda.pdf
    • http://files.urpeaceofmind.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776449/bumanepe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1456/9640/files/bojikuloretalovitawezizu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7110/3395/files/64505232355.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2421/9288/files/26477581074.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6079/6318/files/jutubokesatuzadosu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/97285982277.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9734/1604/files/59073149706.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/visaboxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/669297692.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9494/0573/files/introduction_to_nanomaterials_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0341/2633/files/schede_didattiche_analisi_logica.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_off00006efa.bin
29d345e3a33891402ecd8fdeb2b7440474f4228eda1d3e3027bd1ae7bb3592e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EFA 5572 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000081d4.bin
4acb788512daee05f1f1fb46f007b842d4975b9795f7e9710431ad4364725cf2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81D4 9948 bytes