Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf23b2afcde4eb87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-05 15:20:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f5fa918ae5fe5fe1f05554732c9c6778 SHA-1: 4494e500edaa4e81682f506d49cccc062f2c4191 SHA-256: bf23b2afcde4eb8705bd4517d297c6bad9f38263fb2a7980b6536e6105142688
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the same malicious URL. This suggests the primary purpose is to lure the user to a compromised site, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=always+forever+chords+pdf
    • http://files.drjeanninedavies.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455283/87d4c70013042e.pdf
    • http://files.bigdealoutlets.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437604/1883534.pdf
    • http://files.mplsalpineski.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775341/lekafinigijuwupob.pdf
    • http://files.writerswhorun.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739747/resinabadom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6148/6503/files/fefiditugodevabub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4003/7271/files/xijojulinisilagabi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/51906755497.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5601/3205/files/unholy_death_knight_rotation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0789/1877/files/76423335414.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9212/3560/files/japawufiwemakef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3728/5797/files/nexunuzeru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4746/1788/files/zokofuvebununujerapudive.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7530/4612/files/counter_strike_1._6_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8000/0423/files/74464621852.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_off000055e3.bin
cd0cd242d4b0a2427ee38b011d1b4e58520d9c647f4db166816ece5a17150d80
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55E3 5488 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000068ab.bin
e523e499e9fa6ac4827ea5c988e984f6661ed7e324ad28d9603787050db00832
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68AB 14100 bytes