Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b82d17da1b35c607…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.4 KB Created: 2020-08-19 17:19:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 186303c04a916cf682976bf9d8d5e4c8 SHA-1: 47683a7f41717f4b53a14ce21655bf8411dfcf5e SHA-256: b82d17da1b35c607b2598f4396e625ca3f471f91e309a071c2a32cccd03b0b93
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a primary link pointing to a redirector associated with malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Adobe premiere elements 2019 win' and a URL, suggesting a lure to download or activate software. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic confirms the presence of a link to known 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.ru/pify?keyword=adobe+premiere+elements+2019+win
    • http://files.fanobserver.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874489/kolepol-rasamozotaw-jabego.pdf
    • http://taxes.n3vem.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813059/tovezolegi.pdf
    • http://files.clarevet.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738814/6baf8b64a8319.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8578/3447/files/kegazusuvigutolow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9619/5737/files/sasezotifagenatod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9056/6556/files/github_ssh_setup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4262/6984/files/80117793416.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2885/6477/files/96163651315.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1547/8176/files/44296279219.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3727/6825/files/century_gothic_font_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9245/8139/files/zepaludizapamabenafi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9058/3453/files/appsc_group_2_syllabus_telugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5325/9679/files/40524033535.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5381/7762/files/690584443.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_off00004f81.bin
ef1e266b6eae892427aa6fc3c4b60d0cefab2b04e2f54b43b389c7afde66c819
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F81 5600 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006280.bin
9cc60955844d0e2e22a7ca34701b8367b01330a069f98451181a6f5db17205af
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6280 11700 bytes