Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dca43aa26fcc7f0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.9 KB Created: 2020-08-30 07:15:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dac5dd6f155a050aec194895ead20a03 SHA-1: aa327d7bd9e08befd7bfdbe1617448fdfc34bd78 SHA-256: dca43aa26fcc7f0c914d390a71faeb7292b6b621912c6f774dae1137f471a923
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with 24 external links, including a redirector to a known malicious domain. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to lead the user to a phishing or malware distribution site. The document body text is garbled, but the presence of the URL and the heuristic firings are sufficient for this assessment.

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/wix?keyword=oracle+11g+architecture+interactive+quick+reference
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9806/2501/files/presente_simple_interrogativo_en_ingles_ejercicios.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4891/9450/files/57667626957.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4479/7605/files/tp_link_login_page.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e8353486f17742b387d5f83487f42cb9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1cc7e8_c1270a3665e648bf8678e4ec9f4801c1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3545/7698/files/60447630651.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4335/6825/files/mirokepowu.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a052f_604cd0335ee14e76875060452de7c4b3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_19e102540730479fa24403e4e216ae7d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9c0842_3faa563902b04acabbc3de734c441fe7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2b5273dffdb441f7a8ceb13b5a741aba.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/510a18_b6b425df5cc144f6b0d6af4ccc5bf1e8.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_off0000513a.bin
60c2450017807eb462bbc2167152957e5de12bd6f4eb4825dc5f24c2007b5ba5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x513A 5292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006342.bin
d9449ec7a422aed61caa8222592430fadcb691e03b7f2ccf0fe41d0e28044e61
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6342 10416 bytes