Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d69fd25dc432f54a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-08-11 06:53:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 13f7cc259ba3cb7e2592771f59d5925c SHA-1: bfcc62304043031a715f93bcd0f594dbe3ad17ac SHA-256: d69fd25dc432f54a1f5056727c1bba429ae6859a90db33f66c4c17a119a6c857
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are likely part of a link farm designed to lure victims. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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=astigmatism+aberration+pdf
    • http://files.expert-consultations.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815014/kujuwodusipiz.pdf
    • http://files.mayfieldorchestra.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814238/9251803.pdf
    • http://files.barakacommunity.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874154/266e7f1f.pdf
    • http://wepadud.splitridgerockies.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814674/divebumugamafejup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2721/0144/files/fevar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4477/1739/files/physical_science_grade_10_answer_series.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9703/0817/files/11126725665.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7235/6509/files/apneia_do_sono.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6635/8934/files/sql_tutorial_tutorialspoint.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2821/6983/files/timonatiwaboluwatemedimad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2468/5976/files/the_dragonborn_comes_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4791/9522/files/7108582830.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4777/8469/files/36017906462.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7854/1722/files/lasemugadowomujam.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_off00007670.bin
1bdbd2dbf05c2b08c01b25bf670d12081d073e1e6f6f3badb6df55ce777f77c7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7670 5456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000088d9.bin
42dfe292d33b92f8147d410346efec518b4e60fc2b57c053e716255004957194
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88D9 10788 bytes