Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4b18d8d1e587a6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2020-08-19 13:05:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 29ae411c27557848fe75d69fbd7f9b12 SHA-1: 25c07e58125edfd80212dbb5fc726f38512398f0 SHA-256: d4b18d8d1e587a6cd59b93914becf3e35fd90364436ed8904ef422341c3c78d4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a 'Stellaris gameplay guide'. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF was flagged for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body itself contains the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering lure to trick the user into clicking it.

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=stellaris+gameplay+guide
    • http://files.thunderrockfilmschool.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378776/7479898.pdf
    • http://xivago.mycrnagora.me/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453301/bef99.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1791/0941/files/dipumovebirin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/8638/4023/files/15763429389.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9324/5590/files/22666501802.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4383/1458/files/organized_crime_6th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/31906594002.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0636/0725/files/self_advocacy_skills.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7737/8972/files/walotonulinuzobesukax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6278/0311/files/murokofupapofedeluxiwa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1525/6738/files/amortization_table_calculator_app_for_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0223/2983/files/mudegomunifolojotiwo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9051/8940/files/97091907577.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_off0000f438.bin
d398fefa6cd71bd15cc110577c7bc9b6c76936b95a7ea5953a9f7249e4ad516c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF438 5484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000106c4.bin
8f134bec97de17d385fad7eb48d668b64897479698c2517597e2aa1ced817efc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106C4 10420 bytes