Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe6072cf373fef38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.1 KB Created: 2020-08-26 10:49:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1332104e04001bad78ca23e45c4a1b5f SHA-1: 7cb377463950ea6ee9e1a129987e73e0281fe523 SHA-256: fe6072cf373fef38f85fea15beef22f4553fef6ac3f7fcc127a0e9deb24eaf4e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing a malicious redirector link and a large number of embedded links, suggesting a link farm for distributing malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to a phishing or malware download page. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

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=trove+class+gem+key
    • http://bitixix.fcwellnesscompanyltd.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682137/9872464.pdf
    • http://sovel.tdpbooks.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739275/8e70dddc7b70262.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3128/8216/files/powajubibi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5733/2895/files/eos_70d_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5244/9444/files/wunoxafen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kubogofire.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8740/4968/files/kogubevumifidodig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7235/6509/files/importance_of_behavioral_science.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9681/0396/files/76528727184.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4556/0225/files/pexun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0568/8483/files/nipirurodikexe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1423/4016/files/starting_a_business_in_california.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2010/7424/files/19766386573.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2076/3804/files/gosaxopoda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6189/3534/files/minimalism_live_a_meaningful_life_book.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_off00005714.bin
bfd466b2a286dca7b9744974fc2f9b12c99bce8e0d93cfca773fdd28ffcb0b2f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5714 5296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006912.bin
8f15e9debd946f035ab7c4702228a74cbdbd81860c4b2f4c1a34905b1e553138
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6912 10268 bytes