Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7e8a6b74220db3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-22 21:25:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0e8c5779c1f01a31a41a5d49a2ffdd1b SHA-1: ead3db3c1a14986d526661f1d2f550614d5bf659 SHA-256: b7e8a6b74220db3bccf9310b0ca66fcbb6def13a8a79326bc5b28b74d62f3424
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially obfuscated, suggests a lure related to a 'Hogwarts letter printable template', which is likely a pretext to drive users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a malicious redirector link and a large number of external links points to a link farm or redirection attack.

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=hogwarts+letter+printable+template
    • http://files.jerroldscott.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407424/2041eaf11.pdf
    • http://files.adamearn.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455825/fiwiparojowupi_mexugema_wapixaxibiwuw_defot.pdf
    • http://files.thesharpeningstone.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163898/590b12082a2e65.pdf
    • http://files.blitzhomebuilders.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710628/4909495.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3061/8011/files/bekudekulunese.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0940/1254/files/81485506195.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7682/0890/files/39008663295.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3963/8179/files/wewulekifetufabuzoja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1449/6161/files/josefulebixek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1764/1879/files/77053585849.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4587/7922/files/kawesumuvepaxegasefemumu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8795/4073/files/credit_card_authorization_form_template_word.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9280/3744/files/worlds_biggest_crossword_answers_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7588/7523/files/jezokeregeperat.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_off0000609b.bin
a43b2109b3f4ccceba2f1dfa324550bca56e16b1ff2262e60ddf210729e458ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x609B 5332 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072b2.bin
9b67a6e80cd152522fcca4020f3c867cb320fc2b2ac336aa2125830bdf1c310c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72B2 10172 bytes