Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0622d549b4860c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-15 04:48:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0a9a9601660bfc121df23d83a2beef9e SHA-1: 0e8c3d86e749e0f1ac8f52e6431800e7ac1cb297 SHA-256: a0622d549b4860c9537860232904f284ef57d9a8642c5d88db502efa6efe9f1e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and contains numerous embedded links, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body contains text related to 'reported speech tag questions' and the authoring application, but the primary malicious activity appears to be the extensive link farm.

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=reported+speech+tag+questions
    • http://files.jarkkopartanen.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776077/1154524.pdf
    • http://fibimuvi.doodledesignsandrhymes.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683024/5988887.pdf
    • http://files.adrianaspina.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775828/kuvefisopoxavu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8385/8080/files/marulenomipojofugalereve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5820/0725/files/futupepugaravudofoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xigidewepiwunabifaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5682/3462/files/dutulodevubajegajufiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8027/7406/files/meranadadedadotisoreneguk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7188/9815/files/3629782106.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8114/5243/files/y_to_mp3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4956/5853/files/zerker_pure_guide_osrs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1470/6584/files/list_of_private_bams_colleges_in_maharashtra.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6500/7509/files/sejorudekomufusifiwe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9307/2808/files/lajodej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/8584587797.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_off00005e17.bin
c91340ad854d7a374fc300a12deda1e44af93fd835a48117a3d877de2dd2a850
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E17 5436 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000708b.bin
bb736878cb7da89cc564dbf800237876ed4f2f761d049bdd87657aee08f87bb1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x708B 10612 bytes