Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe630b312125e528…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-31 12:44:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d902cab044b06c6ee546588fed230889 SHA-1: a1fd179ba03dfd411101b3838c42e0e5d1ef6a15 SHA-256: fe630b312125e5280156d091a779a604c92c5efdc64aa3bbeb05ce56feb1139a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious due to a high number of embedded links, many of which point to a known malicious redirector. The document body contains obfuscated text and a URL that appears to be a lure. The presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. 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/wix?keyword=star+wars+t-+15
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9925/1097/files/chemical_admixtures_for_concrete_pdf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1593/7948/files/waxexakenanapuma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7673/0533/files/sanakefaxozufifinopenawoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3206/7748/files/16526712999.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4727/3116/files/jakoveletutiweruretelu.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/aff7ca_33925dc04b864d59980bbde9f12c21fb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_82385f9d59ed4428bca736db4adbc6de.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9c43ec_346f8ae98d1b449f963b5a64f1dfd2e5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e5cbe5_363b8c85cb024f548be777b92a6fae65.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f4de5e_be29b9d0e6684b65ab0db7a6ac87943a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/04e6f9_f6492fdbbc694c00b340c4d44af64098.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/73cb9e_81ad9b9f7490416997cfdcd28658712a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/278743_9f3f7e5ef5b7488eb97f87ba27f7a43d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6009/9222/files/seminisusozitajebexi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/8813/8660/files/god_alone_gyanamata.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_off00005f4a.bin
f2ad450bc429518a9cc4233238453ac27489cf58fdaf69c5b3fac0b42429205c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F4A 5048 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070a5.bin
076c6927fb0b9ea8755d7e9241573c48f97a273066da334043a77effa13d28ea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70A5 10144 bytes