Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3c42edb56fcf80f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-07-28 05:38:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 08e7243688137f96fa1b8f1e6f69d215 SHA-1: e8d25bac1c8833df0c91384a67ca03caa8b88105 SHA-256: f3c42edb56fcf80f43bf6892dea3217ace80f1578f8f3033cd78f50df9d81d3e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it's a report, potentially a lure. The presence of a malicious redirector URL points towards a phishing or scam attempt.

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=hbsag+test+normal+report
    • http://files.sbdayschool.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741176/f3e0266.pdf
    • http://files.tandersonart.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398144/3a05e095f5659.pdf
    • http://files.alt-shn.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398583/maguza_xubinowifepaku_zorasewofexo.pdf
    • http://files.yourcaringcommunity.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382239/7f98349f55576.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7329/6801/files/wifuzix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vibemegabixowosepabotabux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8442/1022/files/nuxosumug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2348/3548/files/sobir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7660/7390/files/19979290731.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9930/6650/files/18739385200.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3588/5721/files/41251390611.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8471/7979/files/zefududiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2179/4460/files/46002349818.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3920/3229/files/21032743493.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9740/7126/files/9943971267.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_off00007403.bin
be10702865f6b6ec0e8c7e1bdce2f82a2122f9c668e6b259c81328432ea68d71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7403 4980 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000084c8.bin
9de384ac026add5c5e3b815d08ac8d37d553e2a853a16be159a180e0b62fb933
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84C8 9976 bytes