Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bc13f89867039e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.1 KB Created: 2020-07-31 07:26:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bc426d415c0445567bd3324f9d5a3431 SHA-1: eaf3af42d34d12109566bda35a2ba3c5aea7acf0 SHA-256: 9bc13f89867039e986ada191b061d7437cefe29dbd1fd53dc3240ba1598e4c1a
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as information about wind turbines. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK indicates that the embedded URL leads to known malicious infrastructure. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests a large number of outbound links, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier also 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/pify?keyword=vortex+bladeless+wind+turbine+pdf
    • http://files.queerapocalypsesolutions.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969315/f2c28b529.pdf
    • http://files.bible-truths.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070452/fa9376ad.pdf
    • http://files.theapostolicinititative.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398498/be116017a.pdf
    • http://files.jillrumleyart.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070178/dae0ac.pdf
    • http://files.queenslandcompetitioncarriagedriving.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453456/jobowejisabusumime.pdf
    • http://files.theapostolicinititative.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398498/be1160
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0800/0163/files/27745913546.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5913/2056/files/jifefeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8028/6372/files/3753612416.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4273/4237/files/65390481290.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4288/0160/files/zitawoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3477/1610/files/japutepefazanofote.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0801/6027/files/pikujulupebike.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7912/2587/files/voferoxomafenef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5059/8562/files/xozuxegurumigejubosived.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5636/4711/files/29497249011.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3260/0985/files/fusifemutilit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2309/6216/files/xuwukogekumijaxunukud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7567/4024/files/fipikef.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_off00007ac0.bin
e7bcafeeb0795707818bc22786397dc73a1aa7343c835de6f0447b7b7bee3ffc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AC0 5180 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008c7c.bin
e357f10f2a951659f2796d093a3f70e8c7d3f33e4834b96d0d942d7340dd9660
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C7C 10068 bytes