Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1572139d4af2fb89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.8 KB Created: 2020-08-07 22:40:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8e31a0962bf6e8f50da4ff6998c86edf SHA-1: 66a8ce2bb14b536fc18d74188aaa3bf1a2ef8977 SHA-256: 1572139d4af2fb899c21f460f4bad98571ba61241fc1803fbedfaa5275d4f34a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests a link farm designed to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites. The document body, though garbled, contains a URL that mirrors the malicious redirector found in the heuristics.

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=can+t+help+falling+in+love+haley+reinhart+piano+pdf
    • http://dupivuf.adelaidedanceparlour.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814017/8087024.pdf
    • http://files.paintballparadisebend.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776164/xanov-lumumotelen-nifakosez-gotufepopuja.pdf
    • http://files.friendshipforcemilwaukee.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606789/bipijirojewugu.pdf
    • http://files.w4sight.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379622/7131092.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7437/9158/files/33525599996.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6392/7206/files/driver_easy_pro_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8180/1629/files/84815478278.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7454/1981/files/buyer_agency_agreement.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8406/3654/files/zifegelirod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9957/8773/files/68524651506.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0792/6687/files/bncc_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5893/8531/files/61405202572.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4338/9597/files/31636488235.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5195/6894/files/alfabeto_japones_kanji_completo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9081/2821/files/44396231269.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7029/1096/files/95288402798.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_off00004a67.bin
f71f98f32c06737e54ea166181fb7a674364e7bbdb9e6408b29a871ede88d954
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A67 5192 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005c18.bin
3c816341c38671fc1a1cb955cad40c2d1dbdbb3741b46c8774dc83653509751f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C18 9864 bytes