Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f44db5cf3eb1bee4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-09-01 10:55:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cf39dc07733ceda26e24696b12eb6892 SHA-1: bc0de69390dabbf2d6225aeadfc9f85e383a572b SHA-256: f44db5cf3eb1bee4f73911d0ceee24bad18d296ff02f82b1e494a69269ffa886
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous external PDF files, with one primary redirector URL identified as malicious. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious redirector URL and several benign-looking URLs, likely for camouflage.

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=guideline+thalassemia+treatment
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3965/3030/files/wordly_wise_book_7_lesson.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3314/0127/files/6016418916.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6784/8344/files/boxibokejizakivove.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e78b77_8c0e96460a7746659e8bd2539ec7c011.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fbccce_dd58fcf1e99942c18e359d2cff7a2d30.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cf53d8e365f34b8cb2a280aba733265a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/1911/2345/files/jason_and_the_golden_fleece_apollonius_of_rhodes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1883/0492/files/84501880942.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5967/5293/files/31068609099.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4189/7113/files/10173963750.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3066/6651/files/zenefidatumot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5497/9477/files/24374024618.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3622/9278/files/zipeberifumet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3393/5519/files/bacterias_gram_negativas_aerobias.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_off00006e51.bin
3f795905c86971c6e3872aab4d8b17f4a4891444e07779cd803fb9adb8e9e3d1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E51 5096 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f71.bin
6aede1cda4f30f3f77f1f6d95ec5df345a3645b4eece03645ae9495be79c11b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F71 10364 bytes