Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb48a2404b3657bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-08 23:00:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 110ae1729d3de91f0ba2e7d295c8a197 SHA-1: 74019f107995d826c5e60437b2a438d394df795d SHA-256: eb48a2404b3657bc41f80abea10d33a6f2c029d2b0c73ccb97550e150e3ff194
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and appears to be a lure related to 'renin angiotensin system pdf'. The presence of numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious content.

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.com/pify?keyword=renin+angiotensin+system+pdf
    • http://files.ogetigers.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/b02a2.pdf
    • http://files.southmunc.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874058/7934808.pdf
    • http://files.aldoleopoldfestival.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740490/4586973.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3317/3927/files/asturias_tab_guitar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/4628/3937/files/cfop_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8043/3302/files/saxophone_arpeggio_exercises.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8052/3681/files/japikelikisifipe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9886/4804/files/canard_pc_hardware_23.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/49839171509.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0665/5642/files/mudufatemurawodas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9597/2256/files/79472273645.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9431/9009/files/26422491740.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6028/2023/files/upsc_maths_optional_books_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6694/9786/files/sijukelawor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4030/1478/files/calculus_graphical_numerical_algebraic.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_off00006a87.bin
ee73aeb2d0aacc0b97a37ea635ee3100ba5fd6457622b2fdb584fbe52c0571af
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A87 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007cbb.bin
6b370ae4c0fe9e956920d18ea43fabc6bb51e493fcea48a6153b07731e8c6845
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CBB 10296 bytes