Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48861e7dae765f1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-08-31 13:48:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f678131deee3c944f124e586dc5fad34 SHA-1: dad1a0f42154e3f94ab7d83e550bd4fd0442cdd3 SHA-256: 48861e7dae765f1cd79c5a61508da2261c5c7ed0954cecf438c1f876497d2534
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, identified by the heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a 'candidate declaration form' and the malicious URL. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, flagged by PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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.me/pify?keyword=npmcn+candidate+declaration+form
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ffb9a4596e70430c8c666932c403267b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bdc6f285362147cfa31e5fbd468489fa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1e02d159814f48ccad7b6ad8e4ef7be0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0dd040_ed53bc8fbd2f49a9ac6c1e6ef90908dd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/225520_88ddc02022324d62860aa7c58f0d4ec5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/856cea_43de77be1ae74d8aa7924525ef105b80.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bdeb4c_da76bf2a914045749fb600195d8e92fd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/289c5e_7d491603490b4e4aa3a721e75b97506b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_16479d6eafdc437fa583bb2210179fda.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0dd040_0c4e5786022045bba04dd4259e8d4a67.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/430cb2_b9e07cd6069b40769994d64a4828d831.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_70961a14e05f4d12a2d9443d7faf2da3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fab6ea02989040ffa9f81bd0e7f73aa6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6fb30e0e92f4478ca04f1c38d6a0d4a5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/299074_6943444277e049b283a18d85e647a08a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e84c15c12f9e4d40a939c7ea81608acc.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_off00005d03.bin
61664d70e48d8e6493c8531d9156d3379747a3d6eb28953001072216a14118e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D03 5092 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e44.bin
0105005609dd6c0a6c1e9aad381f4fa413c0997ec07d2b14436da5fb6d40ac40
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E44 10212 bytes