Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 903e0a766a52622f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.0 KB Created: 2020-08-01 22:03:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3a0d71d06c76d587877e83ec77f6bb43 SHA-1: 837eb8d3df9a5e9d7221d51a4b24158fe121403f SHA-256: 903e0a766a52622f47b064dc20a01b20f195366904be2817aea1fbfb1fd6043d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious redirector URL, suggesting the primary intent is to lure users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.cc/pify?keyword=alice+24%252F+7
    • http://files.stephaniedonily.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775607/1377529.pdf
    • http://files.chihdesignltd.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814241/roxajadotimijam_wosuzokubuwunux_gubixi.pdf
    • http://files.lauradoering.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815220/zumif.pdf
    • http://files.cs4il.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969003/sajaliwelil-lalurakeluje.pdf
    • http://files.raphaelschwartzman.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775506/c079102.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7870/4536/files/76940196239.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/12729031526.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4777/8469/files/71432318500.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0258/4480/files/2180385605.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1303/6439/files/sajovigagaweforaweroloruv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8711/6965/files/foveluroxuxifafukomipo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9639/1323/files/98894190628.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9033/7189/files/86270563319.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9861/2636/files/borugas.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_off00004d72.bin
f9b6a1afbabe525c1c86d6527867db3781bb358eadfe3c526c8e5e81a46c2a25
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D72 4636 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005d6c.bin
1c4f8841cc316f878d7ee6cf8581b7b3db12a4674c7c8c35df475645f8957560
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D6C 10172 bytes