Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b61284196471d0dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.1 KB Created: 2020-08-22 15:28:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 220be5500b2ec3cc10add64ed50bc4f7 SHA-1: b3fe7a3544398b720fd3717a6ba0abcddc75d771 SHA-256: b61284196471d0dd481ebb92cc6f7dc1c4ec74a4c11ff8038710960b2e682c67
154 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 resource for free ebooks, but the primary link leads to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering pretext to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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.com/pify?keyword=arunagirinathar+songs++free
    • http://weboraf.igmlegal.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739892/zavowavirow.pdf
    • http://files.alilisberger.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131405977/pibofi-vomofax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0836/8545/files/free_survival_ebooks.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/1383/2613/files/38164376582.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9662/7618/files/molecular_thermodynamics_mcquarrie_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6012/5080/files/florida_projectile_point_identification_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5575/2103/files/videozal._net.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8774/1607/files/muxajale.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7748/4196/files/58089648355.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2697/9739/files/zexonow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5452/1758/files/constrictive_pericarditis_guidelines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9657/5904/files/esl_advanced_reading_activities.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6693/1862/files/92910999440.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_off000080d5.bin
9435846b0b45406d0d0a1a64d95d90e1963f21426ae7cbe6e145fff91a0f339a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80D5 4868 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009157.bin
c78f361603a8980a9e2cca6cc16a829782eb6fdf0f5b5475db9bb7de977fd0d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9157 13772 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000bbea.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBEA 4324 bytes