Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4808bd05d89f5fe8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.6 KB Created: 2020-08-07 03:30:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c5db42140592ccee6e3b202186be8045 SHA-1: 359f3c81925aababf12e9dbb18cc25dcbd5db48a SHA-256: 4808bd05d89f5fe8785898d281f2f0512d3faa2438c9aa87f6b8ba8f2bc85f83
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a known malicious URL, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body also contains the same URL, suggesting a lure to download a PDF. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack vector appears to be a phishing attempt using a malicious link disguised as a document download.

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/pify?keyword=meaning+and+scope+of+biogeography+pdf
    • http://files.365downandout.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407423/c64f5475.pdf
    • http://files.briggsandbarrettproject.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739544/mabaxapupuxiruv.pdf
    • http://rikus.unclekennysorgourmet.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637136/nesexomikevebita.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2503/1587/files/domij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5689/0013/files/xedizotitiwolar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vijufetibumumupaxewaromuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0716/5095/files/48151244298.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3744/7576/files/convert_object_to_array.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5689/6927/files/76392624284.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0955/5107/files/36281613621.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2806/5949/files/linux_administration_handbook_2nd_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8037/5704/files/naxupironizizi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5120/3225/files/39645445658.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6014/9910/files/23317789365.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5663/5812/files/suwowel.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_off0000b756.bin
b965d1da8310051d5569217471441485dfabfa12b2a141122a4007536c20b916
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB756 5632 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca8d.bin
aff76322eb9d632a7721adb9fb90b34853465d180eb8f3bec3cdebc63bfb0187
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA8D 10140 bytes