Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb631f402c26a6bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-08-14 14:03:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c689dffd6ab98e0a27316c226a13ea57 SHA-1: 6a58acfe5e2c7cdb555f5e660c2ceb3329149045 SHA-256: eb631f402c26a6bbbcee593670e42d4fb23f9fa258f0929d0af9188df0bc706c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service known to host malicious content. The document body, though obfuscated, contains text related to a user manual and a URL that appears to be part of the lure. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic confirms the presence of a link farm designed to distribute traffic.

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/wb?keyword=scifit%20pro%202%20user%20manual
    • http://files.jamincarson.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163632/7393641a559d0.pdf
    • http://gukelig.eastcoastspeedwaytv.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437089/1746137.pdf
    • http://files.marydanroth.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681436/0be622fa.pdf
    • http://zuket.greatlakesantiquesandartisans.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606875/daxole.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rewosegukedisupagur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8379/2533/files/5258138742.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7513/3859/files/85946997150.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4541/9165/files/pafamesatimafuwefuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6574/4287/files/bamesupofuziweta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6499/9588/files/16798457515.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3495/8229/files/basics_of_c_programming_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0355/8564/files/negubofap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3337/0522/files/subabikoxiloletiboni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6881/5528/files/binary_search_tree_implementation_c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6364/7131/files/98388537585.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2412/9952/files/kitelovukoxumu.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_off000070f7.bin
2051d49bf6b3d9d9688bb6dbf625c31cdb947ffda5b748e41554f70bfd7f8279
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70F7 5396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008336.bin
74df45dc8753df92129b64cc2389a1c8b940439c9a56aa18043d3cccc030e500
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8336 10312 bytes