Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcaaf74aaf555863…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-09 04:40:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1fc4ff615cf7c8048ed103f0699bf061 SHA-1: 18fe6ab0c864099b9dfe76e2d6f72f5f6b2d8d6c SHA-256: fcaaf74aaf5558632254db42f8de0b827e2899b247f4e04d5ee3ffa48783a3fb
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one primary URL pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Revista natura pdf download' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking malicious links. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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/pify?keyword=revista+natura+pdf+download
    • http://files.cbweis.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740252/dadijerusovilij-kepago.pdf
    • http://teguve.mrdugalmusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606289/kanapivebelu.pdf
    • http://gutaxikad.shonareppe.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/1859802.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0501/7255/files/ranch_king_mower_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1110/5191/files/variedades_de_caf_arbica.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3058/5250/files/rizumutopozokajizolanabur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3556/5978/files/9517089152.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0425/4615/files/gixikoduvumofi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2121/9493/files/conjunctions_worksheets_for_grade_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4440/4374/files/palamisunap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7791/9129/files/55097368070.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9747/1656/files/lapidafivanuvapimilejaje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6299/2795/files/blackjack_game_c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/93527538138.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0482/9602/files/76110743867.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7052/9436/files/gibunekubinunixepe.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_off0000700d.bin
6375caa3e770c489e60e63005b81e3a6eb8cd1e308720f00ddfbd0dffe2e6d7d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x700D 5192 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000081e4.bin
de8b3d71c0037899673894c040392efd2b7b32baed93f22eafd422cb7554436f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81E4 10524 bytes