Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4429182d869a1406…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.3 KB Created: 2020-09-01 06:19:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d4de37e49305d89b06c01d9ec6b5eece SHA-1: 99ab52580562fd4dc7424c5f7879b83266b48329 SHA-256: 4429182d869a1406c5641f7772359e4a90d4e2920ca94e9114494bcb78419cd5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL. This suggests the primary goal is to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting. The ML classifier also strongly indicated 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.me/wix?keyword=bebasi+odia+song
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1cfe37_d458656441314c9bacf056a5ac547b09.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8127dd_cf056f01772842d48ddbeed1c3a8bd31.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2c608b_46a3cdcb9f38414ba7924cd46c9b1ea8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9431dcffb636424b802f7aac8940d8e2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/32acb1_801ad2d70b01448695b2d6aa3301dce8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ec67cc3a1201451396d892e0c2da5cc6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9ed621cae4ff4374b95ba5c56f3b0acf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2229/3920/files/free_slack_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0047/9391/files/android_pager_adapter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4474/7929/files/sunonitojuganekix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4587/7922/files/senafizitujukijoz.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a4d998_ac96158ce3ac466d9154c724ec61a7c1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6116da_61520e80400c42c3aaa73e2785a6c678.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/696b8a_872abbdcdcc34ba3985c11b2dad05640.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cf14a4_b4fc1731c0a042ceb20aca4cb676cdff.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_off000045fc.bin
8f0720d3b03d2fed7d3d35860aeccf386ce190c0d44a41416f5feb0d1864fc9c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x45FC 5052 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000573c.bin
970699f13b97b8e8448e49aaa023c5bf16767bb8f544600958932ccca4d23e54
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x573C 9960 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007984.bin
96781950f4e8ae8a78e58ea07fae36edc777342f1403fc750ecb089ba41c7563
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7984 2632 bytes