Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ce811c63f9e7585…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.0 KB Created: 2020-08-11 08:51:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: aa6c1dd9acb705c15e9ef94620583f76 SHA-1: 2c0e43508299441381b4098e7453c05e57a25205 SHA-256: 4ce811c63f9e7585a76f4b14cdca0f6dae34b89f54a4cf01c42e16f810d75528
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to host malicious content. One critical heuristic firing indicates a direct link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for security system manuals, further supporting the malicious redirector hypothesis. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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/wb?keyword=swann%20smart%20security%20system%202k%20series%201080p%20manual
    • http://wikilitu.hcdcacbsa.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695663/7113827.pdf
    • http://files.rooibergsafaris.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454459/lufev-lomatazogamir-rifososipoxojem.pdf
    • http://files.corneliapoku.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303083/bitivibajupi_vejabiwedifaveg_janazegowixum.pdf
    • http://files.saintstephencca.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406614/jivilikupexetaje.pdf
    • http://padegesi.10thdistrictohio.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384169/7334072.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9535/8624/files/free_download_books_in_marathi_language.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5959/9765/files/jufakexolanulidav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1275/8426/files/kilogoba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0419/9075/files/65756425414.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7877/0076/files/guwotelamepobijililega.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6913/6280/files/fundamentals_of_financial_accounting_5th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4601/0022/files/tuzuboj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5032/7451/files/watetenavazulikozin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6346/0508/files/air_pollution_essay_in_english.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6394/3074/files/76963666920.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5548/0981/files/how_to_install_kodi_on_apple_tv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5824/9376/files/vuzofazazutilewodi.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_off00004470.bin
3c3357fb32db84a0915bc6d3bb45f392887b438e64b2bb05af60c1ad2e373410
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4470 5960 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000058b5.bin
5305df17b43ec6df9a9e03ff788aa1267bdc18f5772fb04ca27f0c06ee024fdd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58B5 9424 bytes