Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 becc1ab8ad08ba2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.6 KB Created: 2020-08-10 15:06:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 36429c2834735ab54e642c800c98e5c8 SHA-1: e36f2e6ba0da377cbc327bec32bcbdd5fc667d33 SHA-256: becc1ab8ad08ba2f2a4f842ec8def814a18c502c4c50fd3f602c57d0812fbdfe
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign designed to lure users to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, limiting the ability to determine further payload delivery or execution methods.

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=sch%25C3%25A9ma+de+l+appareil+respiratoire+pdf
    • http://files.crstakers.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681586/905947.pdf
    • http://files.affordablestoragesanangelo.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384468/6478063.pdf
    • http://files.brontmattress.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970012/monajabofarunosi.pdf
    • http://files.dancingravenstoneworks.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969148/2bb678e2a9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7245/4810/files/game_of_thrones_season_3_subtitles.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1612/6625/files/75284073320.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6451/5994/files/55860588916.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8818/1400/files/bando_v_belt_catalogue.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8436/5476/files/xetuwesitato.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4227/5485/files/94494413959.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9925/0072/files/jovokat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2768/5798/files/metisitowor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5930/5877/files/39873418969.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4146/5244/files/61032370579.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9763/7535/files/5681581576.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_off0000691a.bin
2cabcfac09780e8d6d8141a538f4b90e5ac22f85b576c34b3caf4d06ba9eaaa5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x691A 5324 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ae0.bin
8ca18077878135dc6f1e837ff1704575c2cae2416e3cda0c576bc75dd1979b9b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AE0 11968 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a0ce.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0CE 4324 bytes