Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b147836b31c3fd4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.4 KB Created: 2020-08-25 02:39:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 10a66711304bd172a8b969b53064f507 SHA-1: 1dad0156cce92caa9b07a83259dc10c2ca9b8481 SHA-256: b147836b31c3fd4d8d226b16185075a335b32b40a64025f90665d7181164d96f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a known malicious domain, masquerading as a free trial for Microsoft Access 2000. This is further supported by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic firing. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains obfuscated text and multiple links, some of which point to potentially benign Shopify URLs, but the primary redirector is the main threat.

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=microsoft+access+2000+free+trial
    • http://rusoviri.pineriverassociation.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454526/zoxuf.pdf
    • http://files.themindfulsquad.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969701/vifenezozigupa-tefodarumagoleb.pdf
    • http://tedov.volunteerfirefightersassociationoklahoma.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303382/add21573d2357b.pdf
    • http://files.learningforcharity.ca/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695432/8496480.pdf
    • http://files.appleprint.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407148/0a6622cc7724e1d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9378/6791/files/el_bautismo_del_espiritu_santo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1519/8104/files/screw_thread_types.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9163/9968/files/aquaculture_practices.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9866/1279/files/gimef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/7802/8183/files/jovalatisifogivobipemepaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7812/3680/files/cgegis_table_2012.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4023/4902/files/koxuxotef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5865/8469/files/sepafabesukorowurarebep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0057/8723/files/letapetovuserakif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5173/5448/files/gujegukoxepov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6033/9623/files/wsh_incident_reporting_sample.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_off000050b9.bin
17c914f9ff6ad1961e226c162870edcb718299caab0c217cb69758b03cad1907
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50B9 5156 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000624e.bin
d1c1818eadcffb9dcdb292939c69680fb9dbfa826c395752c6aed12d386ede5d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x624E 10036 bytes