Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43490da9f64c79b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-06 06:06:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0d7813e1d669849437ca9a88c107443d SHA-1: a7b6436314926d1f6e6eaf817cef8039155d7f75 SHA-256: 43490da9f64c79b4ce820c4695a5ad5b538d98c908ec67f0505c63cffdfe744c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are part of a link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=familia+bombacaceae+pdf
    • http://files.marriedbythebeard.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398385/zobipelurixalaj-wajubigerojobub-subudetad-kitoxewanolanif.pdf
    • http://zifisel.prrms.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071252/af5cc.pdf
    • http://files.assistanceleaguecincinnati.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775942/5032da7185.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5470/8389/files/gefevuluratovanatidokim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4324/9563/files/tawoxawom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/95909873105.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9708/7390/files/essential_human_virology_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4948/3426/files/lavokeguvegikavalur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6990/5825/files/57060408946.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4100/5480/files/92176773664.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2395/6125/files/63381194865.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0185/6668/files/casella_and_berger.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9812/0094/files/23132924172.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3140/3423/files/computer_networking_tutorial_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7102/0964/files/94095697312.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_off00006cd3.bin
3f89c51defec45dabeddadddf2a6c95369c0555f177c8fc0421a4100df526e36
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CD3 5124 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007e2f.bin
31cd069393deadd5b87565162b84b08b092831ae5941c0b35b504706e657b289
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E2F 9980 bytes