Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9de53751f7dbd75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.4 KB Created: 2020-08-07 11:51:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a1110dc62fb809f776693ea1b17bc674 SHA-1: a1a08d4f0f6e19e68df22462d58cc08919862c07 SHA-256: c9de53751f7dbd759e9e667166482f8c3865d323408b01e04e83ff015052f1f9
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many of which point to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are likely part of a link farm designed to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to a phishing or malware distribution site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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/wb?keyword=relational%20algebra%20operations%20in%20dbms%20pdf
    • http://files.lauramccallum.net/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815388/sorujijomon_zijuz_pilogaxalo.pdf
    • http://files.hickmanfootball.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776788/kamubumul-dobozokowobiz.pdf
    • http://files.shineyourlight.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739170/rotugibojofuvavalef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7495/3120/files/29301186843.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4206/3004/files/rapomegemij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7086/6087/files/jufiwakujaxidud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4382/3511/files/xejesebokegijapokina.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2280/3366/files/26565711003.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4790/1592/files/periodontologia_clinica_carranza_9_edicion_descargar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2032/8865/files/31377022733.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2191/0694/files/virajofaxefu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5905/2706/files/65087145752.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0949/9548/files/job_application_format_in_gujarati.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2720/2205/files/kuparazebenubamazodifij.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000615d.bin
3e8128c1567f1204c31db55d4d8a236efa7b1a01bfeb0e9e84b62b296b52dad9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x615D 5508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000073bc.bin
794a8e0814e5564fee3a986e9e12c4ac8688f4e24f37a2e1e87712858bffc7be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73BC 6440 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000837d.bin
64851544d29e437872f1d10e6e7c64d0aab36f3bb310383261ca093d5ec23a0b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x837D 10220 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000a6ad.bin
9046be89dbf29208fa4e667bb100afebb5ab1855799e74908a90bafd1cc96fe3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA6AD 16188 bytes