Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0465105da312159…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.8 KB Created: 2020-08-17 16:01:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d8d9968ca43abe057b2f60a0fed5bff1 SHA-1: 40e8cd57a39c87c42ae0089e0cdba1e77e50b4d4 SHA-256: e0465105da31215986e8fcb6457a31ae1203f5dc04ba777249a30e300eb7b1e4
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to a 'macromolecules lab report conclusion'. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further stages of the attack.

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.cc/pify?keyword=macromolecules+lab+report+conclusion
    • http://kaluxed.bigdaddyslures.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814238/8136999.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7728/8611/files/44385229141.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/78986196578.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7679/4021/files/rafapeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7643/5621/files/betelamazemofuwaxelewa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3802/3586/files/55245036810.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4235/6904/files/2580851303.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0744/1053/files/java_singly_linked_list_remove_first_occurrence.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1126/0062/files/nokujonejegogipe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2191/0687/files/mastering_the_international_phonetic_alphabet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/75555741983.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_off00009e24.bin
31b59c2a1905886f5f82c67274c79439f99b39b293bfca9f1172953f304f4eba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E24 5224 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000afd0.bin
268755413edacfd900b6fb1603ab777a2836f5f4e0b746da269f4694bb1b73f0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFD0 14872 bytes