Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d74c5a2335aaca2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-22 13:44:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0cb4bb6b938a85e29ca00bc2ee0f328d SHA-1: 4eaf062e6e7cf631f539ee040db24eb5b4255071 SHA-256: 4d74c5a2335aaca2b8ebb650a525e5c0d6ae8bdda1df50a8a15db49c3789ef31
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains embedded links that lead to a known malicious redirector, disguised as a salary guide. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results for malicious purposes. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to serve further malicious content or initiate a phishing attack.

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=hays+salary+guide+2019+uk+pdf
    • http://files.miltonmurray.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606644/nelemilor.pdf
    • http://files.bethellutheranlyfordtx.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695438/193374.pdf
    • http://files.ordanburdaninfo.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969446/81749.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5310/4790/files/sack_of_discarded_hearthstone_s.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4303/6053/files/bawuba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8993/5003/files/carbon_steel_plate_grades_chart.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4901/5713/files/29892137290.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3758/files/jowajokimudigetexasawimix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1566/6849/files/digutupuden.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9982/4032/files/6085234313.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3071/5295/files/6120118794.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7616/3486/files/pikenirelanezomet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1222/6200/files/wild_surge_table.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8691/2415/files/65459514182.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4615/6960/files/8722212565.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_off00005bd8.bin
9acf0a8ca459dba382055f42b5ed705172ed29cccd31964aee2e9f3de5e81354
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BD8 5820 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006fbd.bin
cca989c25dd9c1f0898dfe2528f45863c8a6d0279a16005674c05c0b71fe07cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FBD 14756 bytes