Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc74a7daf3d9f034…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-08-01 07:30:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 14e3b3dc9dd704deedbd2290c5b1cd22 SHA-1: ee7775d252e7556a4451b0e903888520e2d35e63 SHA-256: dc74a7daf3d9f034fb28667c2920febdd6f30e4fd850c2b2f3a27875aa1bf311
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with the primary link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Van halen tour dates 2015' and the wkhtmltopdf generator, suggesting a lure for search engine optimization poisoning. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the presence of a malicious redirector and a link farm.

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=van+halen+tour+dates+2015
    • http://files.amyhouts.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407901/4594145.pdf
    • http://files.clairesanimalaffinity.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164157/metutifomuniki_vewamasomefan_mulizap_bazopo.pdf
    • http://files.cresteducator.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874160/7640449.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7511/6964/files/14813981522.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1950/8634/files/27986412427.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3552/5282/files/sowadefowutogulet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6274/7545/files/47434482249.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1618/2184/files/chitiya_kalaiya_song._com.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1525/6738/files/xarixujolakafimoxapo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1154/4987/files/11501436466.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6830/9152/files/papuvozusuvunoru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9270/4408/files/dutetego.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9481/7435/files/63347114342.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3234/6773/files/79288543815.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_off000064fe.bin
fb299d1e12283cf632439309be89d3e1d8b57b348a556534234d17fdeece039d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64FE 5164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007685.bin
6540ad77c0458fcd54a8a75b15bfcf0da1b02a641615d9e383a156aa752bd605
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7685 10720 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009b33.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B33 4324 bytes