Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc88d22b744de65d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-04 13:07:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 276f95fd4a30dc7a10442f23034f0b68 SHA-1: 2226b6162d0f4affd4e52a064d8b102b17123036 SHA-256: cc88d22b744de65dc1ceb9871f0b3435a357940c9a4cc21fc6b6bb542b499f74
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a "Chinese visual dictionary pdf". The document body and heuristics indicate a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further stages of the attack.

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.cc/pify?keyword=chinese+visual+dictionary+pdf
    • http://files.rustlingmeadows.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813054/seximasixenadamek.pdf
    • http://files.alphaphicsueb.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969310/8233633.pdf
    • http://files.bluesology.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682806/mewug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4716/5850/files/73522171588.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0092/2261/files/90799044964.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5834/8703/files/puvowoxuwukajo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3449/9493/files/86358534935.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7614/0710/files/gba_4_ios_9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2656/9633/files/wowizovozinamapesiwani.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/38935964995.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9874/3719/files/28156436641.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4931/2665/files/beauty_and_the_beast_chords_piano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6535/2093/files/83413856715.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6327/1833/files/1849596767.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4628/1120/files/margot_cardamone_tufts.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_off00006ae5.bin
1b4501460ab00243b22c36947ed98fae361ca455dc0395daab8630f14fb62034
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AE5 5312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007cf8.bin
c4798df05d7a00f2d101fd655e38efb11e39f939011df710b6ccb0fb8f824808
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CF8 10060 bytes