Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cba6f1147b67940d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-08 15:31:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a11bf06c5750e5315c8640dcc9b5b0d0 SHA-1: 396b384c2a22898246a0ce1e9370d548c699e18a SHA-256: cba6f1147b67940ddc2d1c7eed0b7fc6e51de047753ffdb98c493c17cc312848
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with the primary link directing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes the text 'Acknowledgement letter example pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering lure. The heuristic firings confirm the presence of malicious redirector links and a link farm, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.com/pify?keyword=acknowledgement+letter+example+pdf
    • http://files.craigleacapetown.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871569/4a8692675f1c.pdf
    • http://files.zimengmusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775998/xemaleva.pdf
    • http://tuwepirot.divotees.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380729/pedotefef_wuweti.pdf
    • http://files.connectingcasualstops.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856602/tikovivalenebupavu.pdf
    • http://files.cottageglen.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070294/rebaxabexewasogiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9005/9157/files/6389295860.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0027/2792/files/ca_dmv_reg_262.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1855/0430/files/73616253848.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6164/7262/files/68986032742.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0163/3177/files/amelia_bedelia_for_mayor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3816/3623/files/11211550194.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7144/6939/files/zinijubefewiwudov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3559/8758/files/31492217413.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/78046530146.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2065/6545/files/76324678247.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5733/9816/files/pdf_to_word_editable_converter_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7258/5881/files/mavisomus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6219/0499/files/3556093534.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_off00006aa2.bin
45d9fe3998bcb9be292c98de99f3b4dfae55af3c32fd24d89c126c76c2a15d69
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AA2 5512 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007d6b.bin
a3d6bcb8d1587b505cde9bcf41874b55ee01e47996090a7f6d0326cc463c6006
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D6B 9884 bytes