Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51b6427dd4f8f6ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.8 KB Created: 2020-08-13 05:03:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0eb4aa20ab4a782045fd69d459503b16 SHA-1: ba5db9155dd1706b0c8ce35bd2a85bd1240ad20b SHA-256: 51b6427dd4f8f6ace0ec07fb7ed25d7e4e61df1058e857bbbd3c47cbad37180d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text referencing 'bevel gearbox design pdf' and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of a link farm further supports the malicious intent.

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/wb?keyword=bevel%20gearbox%20design%20pdf
    • http://piral.itespto.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163599/3666543.pdf
    • http://xanuzi.migrocers.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681947/sajejukidapogivusu.pdf
    • http://files.eleatdiningclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454383/1110147.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8080/1703/files/galileo_travelport.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2728/1558/files/my_hero_acoustic_tab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/2422/3141/files/best_books_to_read_2020_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3119/1975/files/mivudoverilexamo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6350/1222/files/31692267671.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9030/3381/files/96989600596.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0676/2903/files/25442519284.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2363/8426/files/16137311424.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5058/2684/files/printable_comic_book_pages.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1033/4620/files/wobomexufuva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6926/8373/files/66514614259.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_off000084d4.bin
c4d1a7f1f327d1b0836a2f824baa915892a7dd1b8049931363890b324e436489
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84D4 5524 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000097ba.bin
18e0232af27bf3084b1246cda66b8a447ee2d6b38ba8eeff6331f18242e9a35e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x97BA 10880 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000bd22.bin
9fa8bf34b392e54777a73878461b2c201b7cd697526f69512042a84d0f933758
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD22 16096 bytes