Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b8953a2ae72e04f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.0 KB Created: 2020-08-24 16:19:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1449c1a6f0045ca89f19bacb51b549fb SHA-1: 2df2df61f1a62b0c1474101801490c83cf85bbd9 SHA-256: 4b8953a2ae72e04fc8094b8751f02d309b2a8e969d886f5404638bc14d9260f1
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains multiple embedded URLs, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content broadly, with the primary malicious link being the most critical IOC.

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=yowhatsapp++2019+september
    • http://files.kimmyangelique.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070246/volibesitipoteza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9957/7756/files/what_are_your_weaknesses_interview_answer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2646/3392/files/xadulumotuwal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9618/7815/files/21634104665.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0904/7708/files/dd-_214_blanket.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9715/3943/files/nouns_verbs_adjectives_adverbs_pronouns.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0319/9138/files/wemamap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/89647405972.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7451/8178/files/tesuluwidenopekapikori.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6542/5570/files/pebupuxenenezu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7523/2153/files/pepadetigixiratoremusonis.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_off00006d96.bin
60e0e9c6a0312212c620f549a3a55f0aa77edf74e0ed98865aae669fb573be15
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D96 5704 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000080e7.bin
18d5a7738a3b4c5f305d4d81be58f98ef6a1047a5df7fcd457dc61db1bb0d02a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80E7 10304 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a464.bin
387f91ab73dd3685bd686a537218a99aec609482d27bc59cdc26a1338acb3a5f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA464 16656 bytes