Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ca5e9efc30c96b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.0 KB Created: 2020-08-26 11:23:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 094e26f61d9c92467f03aa9477a3368c SHA-1: 766c6f492e5553ffc327987f0c150b2852afc38c SHA-256: 4ca5e9efc30c96b0846055c9d0fde7872e9ad72595a3f4ca5498cd21412580c5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text fragments related to 'Liberation of skyrim bug' and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to attract traffic. The presence of a malicious redirector strongly suggests an intent to lead the user to a malicious site for further compromise.

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=liberation+of+skyrim+bug
    • http://files.koshek.net.ua/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815026/e6e27b38f252d1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1061/2635/files/ganaginureba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3817/0523/files/how_do_you_update_chrome.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5076/0357/files/new_idea_402_hay_rake_parts_diagram.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/6433/6040/files/almaty_tourist_information.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6312/2843/files/pikomelunanimaxozob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4452/7528/files/95363697593.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3320/6690/files/jivibupesejazaminesitul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2086/files/lajuzevipiwer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3049/4878/files/jedijuwetetiwuzasakovim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1430/5430/files/kumusuwixezebulon.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_off0000ab43.bin
30dd5fa0b812a9eccaa05c1753f102064515d750d76766cbe9586ebac006582f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB43 5300 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000bd45.bin
2e8ad456ba09c5097d349222257add14b0785f1da74e64ae96d901f9eae4efb4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD45 10680 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e1be.bin
8036566cd555b50e84c0f36e1d612da84d8bb3e7687f803c58e9c6b958adb694
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1BE 16208 bytes