Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4647fa4f0f6bfa21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.4 KB Created: 2020-08-07 23:08:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3614e375b12bf9a105969f4fc374fdb1 SHA-1: 04d945b6a464a6f8fc1dadfae0497f3012ade170 SHA-256: 4647fa4f0f6bfa21a2a194f5406cb182de2b7a6d4fee9f48ebf5b7ecb628f7c3
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the string 'Viral pathogenesis pdf' and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to attract search engine traffic. The presence of a malicious redirector suggests an attempt to lure users to a compromised or malicious site.

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.com/pify?keyword=viral+pathogenesis+pdf
    • http://files.trappersrunningclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874012/7337c6f.pdf
    • http://files.a-prickly-pair.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775516/pideb_vokuj_zefeba_xujabifesori.pdf
    • http://files.okbigstarkennels.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379262/doxoruwumoliw.pdf
    • http://files.riinabodyart.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607440/3553867.pdf
    • http://files.twobitranchphotography.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302999/1621a771.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2553/8970/files/91298617984.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0840/1316/files/42215011278.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wajomuxufukurojudi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6295/9006/files/ximifuvojegoluvijovusef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0216/5410/files/php_parse_rss.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3654/0056/files/81666889567.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9485/2252/files/75994622174.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3533/6605/files/29812540526.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2412/9952/files/92181432422.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8385/8080/files/83674147978.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1732/3175/files/12014312799.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8228/4194/files/bagan_temple_map.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_off00009352.bin
beaa720829b8d9ba0ee3e6d37f115bfaceec7258ea6eeff76cd202273740de2d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9352 5268 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a539.bin
5d49105e59fb7e4a7dc9179fe9dab341fc100289d302197cc1233bea90cf8caa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA539 10404 bytes