Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16f26dad2473a76d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-08-01 12:21:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 681c367e99f4d394bd9fce5c18b029ad SHA-1: e18e4ec318671d6bbafeda6c25140c1b2040bd04 SHA-256: 16f26dad2473a76dfcc61be503f052a5e845a9b9d1c4bf32fb29b957fa493f04
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 external PDF files, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector infrastructure, indicating a high likelihood of user redirection to harmful sites. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=rotation+90+degrees+counterclockwise
    • http://files.combscoffee.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740553/badejud.pdf
    • http://files.fatherscott.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739023/mopoxunijijasi_nazobetumafu.pdf
    • http://files.imaginationmax.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398184/matesub_vinunel_muwani_bafamasazoka.pdf
    • http://files.blueheronherbary.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437848/1341440.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8579/1393/files/72620008068.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9226/2560/files/sorub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6344/2598/files/21756856529.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6997/3415/files/94719472127.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1670/5432/files/peragimirojefezusub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5832/3865/files/vuporajukexedewi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4619/7653/files/65775786006.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/38935964995.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4441/3350/files/58220472491.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1320/9246/files/tipuwijokelasedi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9328/7321/files/83438988262.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1483/1780/files/megikunij.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_off00006944.bin
21b4e1cf2e7e18adddcc22fafee63398f78722f9050e33859599cc82625c5cf4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6944 5568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c60.bin
89eadc1bed7492c6915c0fce77dd50743981477b016880db40ac391a5d12849b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C60 10496 bytes