Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a70cea07e969f7ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.3 KB Created: 2020-07-30 17:37:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fbf2ce5f6b1ada2570367be581dcafca SHA-1: 8090b1ce802ecd0af8e7cd9d3f5d3c311de06841 SHA-256: a70cea07e969f7ca68bf68ac0a1b48adbae8f7c646902ffd9a5c24f245185fdb
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a link farm or redirection attack. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=pharmaceutical+quality+assurance+in+class+industry+and+market+pdf
    • http://files.streetsboroumc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437194/zuvate.pdf
    • http://files.useddredge.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741110/39f1b4f.pdf
    • http://files.moot.nilsinternational.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398338/virisakupusinagabep.pdf
    • http://files.streetsboroumc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437194/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/53607129813.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9988/9569/files/74231249606.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4610/9341/files/dapasijimumekalupumi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7803/2296/files/45045139585.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9245/7112/files/xunowikukufezogonipo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9286/9281/files/39293843342.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3393/6547/files/36384690809.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vuxopikuxoxixu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7275/7668/files/repiveguku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7506/7294/files/64658087754.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6281/1031/files/bufabef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1188/9562/files/tununi.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007d14.bin
bb68423f09adfc8a88fd72b061639f0708906368d4540c5cf977cc891569bbc8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D14 5460 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008f80.bin
cd3b19d7f4440c770d8a192e7d2adaed791249838214c590086af6a6d0f3ef4a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F80 10632 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b3a3.bin
2979ab094da45d2f1832ac7b5136ba89e9d8057d0a9e32c55ff41df61c603865
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3A3 17076 bytes