Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4779ebf00d56dc60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-06 05:56:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3256853bffd7d76a9115b7da05aa2a4f SHA-1: 6ec90054cdd72c96c4af19e05aa2cd33a924279b SHA-256: 4779ebf00d56dc60454e272a77b8367c66312eece8266b8c712b403c9ce2a01e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a link farm with 30 external PDF links. One of these links directs to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that leads to the malicious redirector.

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=pathogenesis+of+angina+pectoris+pdf
    • http://files.alabamadancetheatre.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452958/87e5b.pdf
    • http://files.cheyennesheriffcolorado.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775109/wejovojonefabegitas.pdf
    • http://files.lighthousepointplymouth.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437376/740ba68bbcc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2651/4077/files/aviation_week_space_technology_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1471/7597/files/jevuvuzile.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3341/9160/files/kesamakam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/2777/9999/files/waste_management_ncert.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2541/6860/files/24597510914.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4115/1386/files/8763502079.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2416/0667/files/bijoxuwisuka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3815/4653/files/88728549457.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0925/1227/files/ditenub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1167/8114/files/31086840802.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6926/8373/files/nafilirilibilonetoroli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8421/0583/files/41523935503.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2541/6

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000721d.bin
adc75ff3d65458fb8176ea403e6ff2b134f167132dd8f7d80f335912dc79b255
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x721D 5384 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000846c.bin
2b18d92b1a523e61487f61cd98d5c01d293c43715088e6ec2d772f34dffc12a5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x846C 10140 bytes