Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd8155ab1d47f1f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-02 11:22:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 247043261e47d06a9ed3ffefa9917e02 SHA-1: bc86e7d10fbbc9e9b4256017e5596c3303141d5a SHA-256: fd8155ab1d47f1f63005662ff31802f9a3861931cd07f53c2d66e58945ea41c2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Windows usb/dvd download tool' and the malicious URL. This suggests a social engineering attack aiming to trick users into visiting a malicious site. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=windows+usb%252F+dvd+download+tool
    • http://files.hk100-ultra.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738755/pilewem_bibudeditisazuj.pdf
    • http://files.freesixsigmasite.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164236/d2f6b.pdf
    • http://files.kathleenrupff.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740852/fbd3c2d16.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2707/8042/files/tozejagu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9182/0695/files/senunexarorokazib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0264/2075/files/79413148114.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1913/1285/files/46378765112.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5431/8239/files/iphone_2g_price.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4463/3756/files/kagerokegilutafepew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7465/0261/files/82041995635.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8792/1313/files/tafekumodiwalinix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/6819160869.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4354/3450/files/zasikepujozubuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5035/9194/files/zuwivavozipi.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_off00006991.bin
f37c35e93773e8bfbd4010bab587d5552b66d1bcce51422d3107f7ce73e7ab50
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6991 5064 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007afd.bin
eedbd5739e9f95517ba6c50d3bbb2d7c0cf1afb1e58174819a47976c9fc40ac3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AFD 10128 bytes