Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4629cb4824ca1a86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-13 22:07:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2961019d09733f7529eba5a092086134 SHA-1: b0c521154d6ab30fe54b88e3b833f691c7c323cf SHA-256: 4629cb4824ca1a8626504755bb80e5526c15a9e5e9758022dadc89049c0e4abc
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. The link leads to a URL that appears to be part of a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the final malicious destination. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves social engineering through a deceptive lure related to 'free birthday invitation templates'.

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=free+40th+birthday+email+invitation+templates
    • http://files.stphilipsgreenville.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163578/jogalodaxalato_somosoji_jimalalepumuxiw.pdf
    • http://wemojazoz.rutheverett.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683024/dutuvolutanumilebepa.pdf
    • http://files.maiapearson.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695851/2c7efa5bbeac.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3463/0549/files/xcom_2_co_op_mod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/6434/0130/files/my_talking_angela_mod_apk_unlimited_money.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6162/2437/files/jordans_the_sims_4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2143/4005/files/administrao_da_produo_slack_3_edio.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0156/0737/files/91843315423.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9147/7148/files/dituv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9798/1089/files/kifakedijitifojitipep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2587/4600/files/49499870835.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0742/4158/files/54200380411.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4118/5189/files/vafawov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7513/2821/files/bafumatopukazov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4244/6231/files/47722719461.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_off0000619b.bin
d029b5ee4ed4fc46700fb05961141dbf1f88e314a1a3827125568cbe32754266
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x619B 5684 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074d0.bin
20c646a44c56b63916b3c015805b13a098aab247fa704aecd6ce99c77eb92c2b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74D0 10120 bytes