Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d847bfff801cd05b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-19 14:24:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 38a25fadafddf4fe48a8f26afbc448bc SHA-1: 1793c47e641638218829912dae7d2992b11ab054 SHA-256: d847bfff801cd05bfbc08884e0c2972705925470a8eaab03be31fdfef03893ba
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with the primary URL pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'uk tv programme guide app' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=uk+tv+programme+guide+app
    • http://files.lakesideranchandresortfl.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380771/bakuxesof-zabusof-joxawem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0115/9585/files/rijewaxusejolapomuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6097/6021/files/wudakosemorowej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7245/3797/files/dejogesenemunejawido.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4672/3996/files/40928843612.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8202/8958/files/58161212432.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4179/1895/files/25895463455.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2476/7400/files/gizivose.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5127/0815/files/kalender_2020_bayern_feiertage.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7832/8224/files/95694453541.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7005/4805/files/pavoregugegem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6516/3422/files/dameriratavoderuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2406/4410/files/20892708878.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005aeb.bin
b7355c37b5a1fef7f6b94b84a158e511f1a18ed43d091d4ce2d56556ba487520
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AEB 4960 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006bd9.bin
5065010d9f52d020ef11c545e3ac29db2e66a45920950c340ee95d38bae1cf16
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BD9 9928 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008de0.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DE0 4324 bytes