Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01fd6dd2b82c8707…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-08-11 09:55:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 15fae67be6682f04b0bdbec8fd0a66d2 SHA-1: 8648a7bfb42b1d660f6a3ac6c00fd29f5e144ef7 SHA-256: 01fd6dd2b82c870744dc9a9e1b850a7d6a643458f2e2484afbec63adf265b4ee
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to benign Shopify URLs, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to act as a link farm, potentially for SEO manipulation or to distribute malware. 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=antonio+machado+cantares+pdf
    • http://files.goldilocksvalves.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741130/9872031.pdf
    • http://files.sandysdelipizza.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453111/6885673.pdf
    • http://files.neeshazollinger.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681826/rapemaderik.pdf
    • http://duviwivus.heidispiritmedium.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871650/d8167e040a.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1864/7709/files/light_field_microscopy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3667/2162/files/fapeteximaravokimawisez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0821/2638/files/58413375246.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/45292738862.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6131/2676/files/74509343301.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6635/2028/files/kotilamov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5071/9637/files/2544006256.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2562/8327/files/63024833633.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1449/6161/files/java_ee_6_tutorial_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6567/1833/files/jefuvekabinigonaluwar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8585/5897/files/astral_projection_workbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3955/3696/files/xafuroluwe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/laxigitifudavizemitipa.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007dbc.bin
dcff7a62c7191fc3fc18827b1debc7a20c3c9c95c6b5085cec23420412f85392
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DBC 5352 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008fb9.bin
c8c51c42f48ba4de206f3d2b203cf52bb1830e440a1685b231038533fc993bb4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FB9 10192 bytes