Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4703d220d22fc9aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-28 22:09:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 10850971d11cdcb900dd3796b6bb33a5 SHA-1: 540ba44bddbb7eb3e7810ee45a755bff31f35a62 SHA-256: 4703d220d22fc9aa802ba4049cd540b77424072723149844fb4c8e0ed47c740e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, disguised as a search result for 'Rachmaninoff vocalise imslp cello'. It also features a large number of embedded links to other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure itself contains suspicious elements like duplicate object bodies.

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/wix?keyword=rachmaninoff+vocalise+imslp+cello
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5011/4965/files/pufulevemimub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9090/2166/files/que_es_apgar_familiar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6807/0815/files/body_parts_activities_for_kindergarten.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8c683f470e8d4d2c9afb00afbd6570fe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_68c449a8f5514fd8bdec4b1be8db192b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_767516d29e734ebca158c269edd07f9c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_047b736365034e24a6aa527cd62a058b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5307/2022/files/50823163049.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9322/0758/files/pewixerinubazulo.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_78649abb3d80431f8a9bf0224a081a4f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_590ecfa9c212456080d2cc9d8e5beffb.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005a54.bin
2effee984ba0a6a4503c2555839e2d646d341a0fadebfb6a53f5a3354b060d59
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A54 4936 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006afc.bin
3b84347794fde095ecfa2add672ee181c3774ac69cf851281cba486d8233a778
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AFC 10136 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008dab.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DAB 4324 bytes