Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ac53b08bae1b529…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-09-02 00:13:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f30ec59f5f151d4c4e3a294a5b09fc7f SHA-1: b73a6bc12462643c045e1f13955cea7febb83b63 SHA-256: 4ac53b08bae1b5290823cd689ed6e70686ff5e7d5fe76dd0006bc51a601c6120
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body and embedded links suggest a lure to external, potentially malicious, content. The presence of numerous links points towards a link farm or redirection strategy to distribute malware or conduct phishing.

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.com/pify?keyword=bpo+startup+business+plan.+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e9cba9_e465a9c246b34ae3873d582a303b73ff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/66c878_7e165ed98aa041d1a1e599d9a7edf1a1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8ce3de2a0dbe44b98f7ad2a3844927c0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/2585/8459/files/fajotorureleluxapem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1783/7467/files/polycom_realpresence_desktop_app.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4923/8178/files/finunakuwifuve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2327/7973/files/72376742762.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1274/2564/files/92011588142.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4130/8319/files/10075686848.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2064/7576/files/bibikevekijaliwowogug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4777/9478/files/probability_and_statistics_course_pdf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8987/9445/files/sogevolipeteje.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_off00005ec0.bin
a86f7639e2c64d2606e50d21a7112a19bd9dcaeaf42173aaa4c6a1a019384342
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EC0 5256 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070ad.bin
acedf086a959f8f47d6f24bedea3f40d7488fdf27a878f7f177c61c1cb9dd008
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70AD 10260 bytes