Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbe34ddde51fa302…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.7 KB Created: 2020-09-16 20:40:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d1772d3946ae9993405d2dda823c723a SHA-1: 5ce04699a90a7e0d4972ec1260b6887c1abc8414 SHA-256: bbe34ddde51fa302defc7c9eaf616667b252f238457eb8a2833e59792c71c774
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to external PDF files, which is indicative of a link farm or SEO spam campaign. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be part of this redirection scheme, suggesting the primary goal is to drive traffic to malicious sites.

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.link/wix?keyword=pediatric+plastic+surgery+medical+college+of+wisconsin
    • http://wixep.scripted-joy.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407241/faxizopi.pdf
    • http://files.easternpoint.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383949/4199210.pdf
    • http://files.authorkayshanee.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069887/d597f107ad3b.pdf
    • http://wejon.raisingthedeadband.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453784/girexukir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vuwizesovipijekugufex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6795/7660/files/12882243690.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7838/3771/files/32454719526.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7926/8520/files/iowa_dnr_contact_information.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5847/1846/files/84427660455.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/8632/3352/files/ms_points_codes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2476/1507/files/pandoc_install_engine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5649/6791/files/raxonabalamumawipe.pdf
    • https://db6b2b01-b162-498f-af28-6e493eded2b0.filesusr.com/ugd/9d7ad9_e79553496e8d4e53b27455ac568e216d.pdf?index=true
    • https://ce4c9986-8d0f-4380-8440-b8f076f23c2a.filesusr.com/ugd/dcf311_98eb7c3d362c4fadb58f8ae2d7726274.pdf?index=true
    • 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_off00005360.bin
397f1c3ca4d42681a47404a2276866cccb58721835064fd29481a330a8d5625f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5360 5672 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000066ad.bin
232e276118a4eff709db2d3aa82e24ed11937a252b5cbc9086b258b196d18341
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66AD 10236 bytes