Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fc6a8e3714b1e9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-08-12 07:04:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2ba485759d0031769635b9b9d7954497 SHA-1: e12b530efc30f32d9c30e7111cdaf4210292766b SHA-256: 9fc6a8e3714b1e9eb882bbbb014a4b4fae170a9637003ca6bceaae7f874cfbc4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a malicious URL, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'ketogenic diet plan pdf australia' and the malicious URL itself, suggesting a lure for users interested in such content. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates the presence of numerous external links, likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS classifier strongly indicates 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/pify?keyword=ketogenic+diet+plan+pdf+australia
    • http://files.stephenjonesjewellers.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874416/budisazemabizozi.pdf
    • http://files.miaburundi.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739945/kixit.pdf
    • http://files.dutch-artwork.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682528/jemakipotes.pdf
    • http://files.algodonesdentistry.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969061/dumefemogaker.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7796/7776/files/84673711783.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3485/3021/files/35950443399.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9273/0275/files/momotunegivorid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2721/6037/files/resume_format_for_accountant_job.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3462/4679/files/68650726275.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9221/3911/files/82113281545.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0408/4899/files/61845827040.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8266/1526/files/1818139218.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0346/1283/files/80202568035.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9732/5732/files/99710192749.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6199/1841/files/rupenegujepolumanit.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_off000073e5.bin
8016b7bc89490b49fa7eab2c3d86866b5c9ee450da696ba28d0f4c466860669a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73E5 5292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000085ff.bin
faef3fdf59199e0a291344b4c98b245bdc92242557fcdbbb8d469ae11cc112ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85FF 10260 bytes