Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d873b13fa9521331…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2020-08-17 06:55:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d049e004b37d54d98691dfe52dbb3661 SHA-1: 6b39ae9e5abcda22b7db138c858b1c9f4960c231 SHA-256: d873b13fa952133123af1118de4457c18575129f25b8a79a50fe6e5bdca3c546
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be part of this redirection scheme. The ML classifier strongly suggests malicious intent, likely to redirect users to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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=calibre+user+guide
    • http://files.nickseifert.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681993/f6f1f4c8.pdf
    • http://bazil.grchips.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636664/funikeme_bigilefivez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8361/9736/files/wiwevimuvajud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3427/0117/files/12318550749.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3761/3461/files/12959452291.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0625/4504/files/verutemimonuraraguwawuwa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4333/8912/files/b_t_c_full_form_in_english.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5295/5810/files/2492513978.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6062/5562/files/money_banking_and_finance_by_bsc_publication_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1682/0648/files/12823462705.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9671/1069/files/dexoseworovetosolirajuzen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5162/2306/files/25012963919.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1266/1152/files/56980568097.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8932/1366/files/13200992403.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sopituwoxo.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_off00010f4e.bin
e0a3f683c300915272509316e9b53b6cc0aa71de0ab62b73deb85008a9381810
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F4E 5040 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012071.bin
f31e180914f302573f7ea901a7a089f9e0c7b42dee3ec1b646d61a5abc71273e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12071 10796 bytes