Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f728b8767fa52c06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-19 23:24:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e76793514ee5582534307347050d9961 SHA-1: 7cba349a864273a6608319da930ce4309d065e44 SHA-256: f728b8767fa52c06ba08948c5cc97bc4a77ab10722ec77de495bfa480c41c768
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text fragments and URLs that suggest a lure to a malicious site. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' confirms the presence of a link to malicious infrastructure, and 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of outbound links, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the true destination. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=dehydrator+sheets+alternative
    • http://files.foxlairwest.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874620/temow.pdf
    • http://files.julessalonandbarbering.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070420/4322399.pdf
    • http://files.straightlinedancefitness.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857494/leratalul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gozoba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3503/1712/files/agammaglobulinemia_primaria.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1148/7397/files/appointment_cards.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8469/3160/files/tally_receipt_voucher_format.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2014/7112/files/24181743907.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7676/4327/files/darexoxerolen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9654/7230/files/11696111547.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5106/3195/files/sakipanakivubinuvidupusu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3823/5031/files/6559168627.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6596/6741/files/scerts_model_autism.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_off0000641d.bin
e9a2d1effecc883256638f51eddda3e37f611b548f929f9e037439310850a3fb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x641D 5076 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007568.bin
e9d3a5a0f3e91228b69f8d54bb50966abb9b8689da70c1a36c6ed9abcdf821e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7568 10088 bytes