Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16a5f1b590086f41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.7 KB Created: 2020-08-18 19:17:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 08342ef59da4606bf8977cab74396a64 SHA-1: 251245a20cc370dbcd0872a2824b28a936d02792 SHA-256: 16a5f1b590086f41b6e1b93040ce89e257cd0f490f65d99c954e9e30324c7cc7
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, many pointing to external PDF documents hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, indicating a potential distribution point for further malicious activity. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains a URL that appears to be part of this malicious infrastructure.

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=saki+saki+song+video++3gp
    • http://xanup.briannasmithonline.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454029/631771.pdf
    • http://files.dancewithmweyne.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682646/d978c9.pdf
    • http://konew.raveim.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437402/pajej.pdf
    • http://sunoto.thehudsonsheafoundation.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070450/b5338f72.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0425/4615/files/gmat_official_guide_2020_bundle.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7956/5465/files/star_trek_episode_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lasuzopaxikabade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/1753/5397/files/fosuvurukuri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3187/2166/files/folorexatev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4849/1425/files/balistica_forense_cibrian_vidrio.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/57727452667.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2176/2723/files/acura_tl_repair_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0384/4520/files/anyconnect_client_ordering_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6782/4533/files/xefinidawevub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8048/2967/files/vedavuruvuz.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_off00004674.bin
ad062279459c0cd3c3eb55c23c424ef9660c82670a3db3a5e9c4829385e84569
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4674 5392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000058dc.bin
3a3add82f2252a724dca660eef347660edf17e8b76420da2e216c0e583b44357
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58DC 9628 bytes