Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 459abeed05a970d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.6 KB Created: 2020-08-24 14:28:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d6965871ea9e10a1c16d1b81b2d934a7 SHA-1: c8c28949963f09b91c8c41caebe556151bfaf236 SHA-256: 459abeed05a970d9a02a4dfe18324ac0cf20813fd0ec941be3cc702650f180c6
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that lead to a redirector, which is a common technique for delivering malicious payloads or phishing pages. The document body text, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to an 'internet essentials application form'. The heuristic firings confirm the presence of malicious redirector links and a link farm, indicating a deliberate attempt to distribute content through multiple external URLs. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via deceptive links.

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=internet+essentials+application+form
    • http://files.mossandivyhome.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712209/wepufixajikubo_wazixokogerop_fatirugu_pajopawawi.pdf
    • http://files.kennel-midepra.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437377/vukigufusural.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3056/1447/files/bryson_tiller_don_t_mp3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5063/1319/files/23260328626.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1330/7541/files/15916216081.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5014/7745/files/convert_to_editable_word_document_for_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8428/2008/files/android_developer_interview_questions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4176/7072/files/jimuzat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5592/1817/files/zibapunalisak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0632/7959/files/libro_los_compas_y_el_diamantito_legendario.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4936/9252/files/pakimubopadajisiwananiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2494/9153/files/transformar_angulos_centesimales_a_sexagesimales.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_off00007b85.bin
2168b25ec6516cfbfed81e82be0215583e08ada798acb612f993ca4e6c88b28a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B85 5100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008cc0.bin
7f3317214403dd08c2f26d39939997e84e821d687ef63f20d07a513d1baab4c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CC0 10956 bytes