Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a04bfb804528ea5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-15 08:00:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 21811f8df6265bb352258a6826729f21 SHA-1: e420041d3bddd446b688e362d1ef7114e22fedc0 SHA-256: a04bfb804528ea5b1d6327bfd7231efd1863e176eeceaa2e86c1223e8ceef0be
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, disguised as a Cisco Webex notification. The document body and embedded URLs suggest a link farm tactic, likely intended to drive traffic to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=cisco+webex+meeting++has+stopped+working
    • http://files.authorkathrynperez.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070845/dujijupuwugufo_watibudazun_wumewifep_zuzejoda.pdf
    • http://files.zamfitness.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856331/54f0fdb004.pdf
    • http://files.loggerstrace.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437699/6699008.pdf
    • http://files.shiningonesoflight.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380894/zorozixixovefi.pdf
    • http://files.companionsofchrist.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969375/3234800.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1092/4437/files/multithreading_in_c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7264/2460/files/functions_in_excel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6081/2193/files/welding_work_risk_assessment.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3786/7687/files/jubuzuruzanewuve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4021/0072/files/toxireberozotubixijonor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5064/7202/files/dosuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3478/files/d_d_acquisitions_incorporated_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6709/7756/files/jukamaserojeladixug.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_off000068b0.bin
a3a1ad25ed5924e1de0e9faf04fa38a4275f2729fd54261b0954ef30353a03ac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68B0 5724 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c05.bin
2425b13495e0278171477b8e53292719d543c29111db71f088bf893225f30aa4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C05 11264 bytes