Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a04d162a1a97f8ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.3 KB Created: 2020-08-05 06:54:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d9d733e04305df46e453ee6d4613153d SHA-1: a4d323e3a3c8ae54bf2a629ae90c042567080254 SHA-256: a04d162a1a97f8ea30ad8911c5e939ab3945dcdeaf9cd57575cc84f50df14399
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to appear as a mushroom identification guide, but the primary link redirects to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains embedded URLs that are part of the link farm. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests a SEO poisoning or link farm attack pattern.

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=edible+mushroom+identification+guide+pdf
    • http://files.lakeriley.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874197/180912.pdf
    • http://files.mindykannon.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872021/1367894.pdf
    • http://files.sandpipermag.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437976/juxofiriram_guroxugu_rafudisowiro_wegamim.pdf
    • http://files.jillybeancakes78.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969169/e6355012.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4996/5985/files/jofufigofav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8651/0232/files/2825468711.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8581/5205/files/60641285371.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6259/9585/files/mufexavidivuradigubebi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5468/4565/files/69822841529.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4222/5832/files/38086830821.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3235/4727/files/doluvesibixugurikinof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5429/3402/files/pokemon_diamond_rom_downloads.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3857/1670/files/rowirajogupalamibosem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5158/8507/files/lifavigijefubu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0910/6332/files/bavomafapemi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3978/4103/files/jukasowenoromare.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3096/0549/files/89843061502.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_off000075f9.bin
60b164081c5186736d6cd53a4551a4107e2bd004213b246ee8016efa65e9d809
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75F9 5668 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000891c.bin
bdd885818cc996b22e03316daa4612bf0e78ec7ceb86a2c604a2ecd7573b9a0d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x891C 10660 bytes