Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49cf159ee003c01e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.9 KB Created: 2020-08-21 15:32:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9a7f17b50daf2c5ffac9d361a1942d1a SHA-1: 6150c84c1a8cc6ee42f4af7a3ff3a26764af71b8 SHA-256: 49cf159ee003c01e09a4bb2daead12cf6667a94ade59a1d2ef32880c3f57ecd9
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, suggesting the primary intent is to lure the user to a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=garrapata+boophilus+microplus+pdf
    • http://wujuweza.sophisticatedfit.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637814/digiwaridubute_wefimuzuteluxe.pdf
    • http://files.grahamstead.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738988/5196576.pdf
    • http://meluxod.sssacademics.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775443/kowas_mebef_neruwibujula.pdf
    • http://puwaf.anastazjakrokosphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379552/tulomo.pdf
    • http://wawig.geoffreyobrian.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070450/21c32e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8316/0995/files/3000_chinese_character_dictionary.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7742/5557/files/46398823997.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1687/8242/files/environmental_chemistry_baird_solutions_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kupesuditijativerawepafu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0402/5242/files/biopsicologa_pinel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2708/4965/files/figobe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7735/4143/files/manonukobipuwujerulirus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2484/9815/files/20706258476.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9850/5369/files/wiparuzaguzijita.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4302/7106/files/spanish_1_study_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7469/8902/files/zonef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3078/8758/files/79934476453.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_off00007d2b.bin
3f27c5155e41e30c2854949759307e0a93e17f27de389a9fd85470d7bf8d6a52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D2B 5564 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008fea.bin
c5f5fe90188ecca80637a35b85d14d09b62ad046e5b3287f671c83a9918bdea3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FEA 10600 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b46f.bin
532315dfdc59b350d447ad91845dd8cc72a836e684f536ab9a4305dc5b53fb8e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB46F 16204 bytes