Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4a5d40ee16ad63a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-09-02 01:16:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 29a85000f2c16ae6ba7cef6f53ecfa4f SHA-1: 3e0404abdcf839a6f52d0b4980882a681a65c21b SHA-256: b4a5d40ee16ad63a632476d8f1e017922bc5cc869806d7b6929f2d4a1447f701
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to a critical heuristic indicating it contains a link farm pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are part of this link farm. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to a malicious site.

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/wix?keyword=fmla+guidelines+pa
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4615/0039/files/94640442552.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7052/9436/files/2501078815.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5698/8317/files/dosarat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6044/3813/files/open_3_lith_void_relics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/0870/3894/files/old_shayari_video_status.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f34823_d6fb043b002049079835e387cb5a63a4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c75f60_db1bbaaaacc244c9b72ea1359c69ba0a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ac72e0_7373f5dc77264676812fcd05096167e0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4f92c1_07168109299847eb8cc4eb1d5a23f103.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dd4472_1bf18716a47f4af19b006edf5c8042a5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cac9e4_cc8cf4c0f4dd4501bcd5e92187b01ef7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/930050_7f095a3fa230496487e703f66fce29fe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0b46e6_238bd2c094c24065aa2df3b1d47027a2.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_off000062ad.bin
dfedd00a5c78cdf65380b9f514b7a8d7ffccb6f0b8fa41c7d0e306df77d9bf1a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62AD 5136 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007419.bin
f4d87c42dd5a4abaa652ed954b5db70d1fa840a31ba775d2c39edd99d51e2bcf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7419 10320 bytes