Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45adc64902e16892…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-24 16:08:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 15fed9b6fddbe3a60e625cb7c7073e43 SHA-1: f5e7d82a93f1caeb73d8679f8bb2dc783f7e7608 SHA-256: 45adc64902e168927201b285f119adf707b4abf5c692d56c235edce41b275b6d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, with the primary link leading to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'payroll calendar' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure itself points to a link farm designed to distribute malicious content.

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.cc/pify?keyword=2019+adp+semi+monthly+payroll+calendar+pdf
    • http://files.nourishdiy.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637038/8766152.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9023/1974/files/35481118928.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/6129/7560/files/50757448017.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3471/9909/files/canon_eos_350d_software_windows_10.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4402/7038/files/rimworld_steel_slag_chunk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0236/3045/files/31730242160.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1190/7488/files/autodesk_inventor_sheet_metal_cylinder.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2344/0792/files/japusodutaxevijil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4088/2343/files/politeness_strategies_by_brown_and_levinson.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7418/1537/files/kesimivizarulokokagi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5288/3352/files/75736315655.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_off000069a6.bin
44cff24811570412229a5be014447d7b91e143864a66bd93e8fbe07942d9b846
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69A6 5884 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007d82.bin
b1f23c17d9940c27d039beae601bb1c5ff5262aff85e02e4e46533069f1f5c72
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D82 10856 bytes