Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 462defcb54519f3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.7 KB Created: 2020-08-29 06:49:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f4cac5e5b1bdfd83004fbbf25a5cfd5a SHA-1: 1a3bbb47329a161c994ecda7dd59a8b0eb36652f SHA-256: 462defcb54519f3c9f97ab905e5c1d9b06e67cc1f18e47a2099f9b723dbb3323
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a known malicious domain, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a lure for a manual, and the primary malicious URL is directly extracted. The ML classifier also strongly indicates 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.ru/wix?keyword=motorola+talkabout+mr350+manual+espa%25C3%25B1ol
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4950/0328/files/numakavef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4764/9429/files/warikip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5440/7578/files/87144180913.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/8233/4617/files/avorion_container_field.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5676/6869/files/2004_polaris_sportsman_500.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9703/0817/files/89210964364.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_440639ac48aa415889b8eed6d5e7fc38.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_56651e16c1894a7dbea5127926c6d992.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1fdf14fbccdf47169eb3b1d1f1c95a63.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6388/3429/files/adding_and_subtracting_mixed_numbers_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8125/2512/files/2843671901.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8730/6658/files/rotizejejapip.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_off00008d94.bin
44886282d497cdaefdd06497cd9e8f0a8f052cea1874f1a9fbcb5f6e2fa50edd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D94 5816 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a108.bin
e95036410dc563220dba799f9fe7ac7fb4392708f64f9cb8f8b673178ca0b79b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA108 11448 bytes