Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ff36d87d95e5b0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.7 KB Created: 2020-08-08 09:22:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 277061bec95a1962979b35c7e641497c SHA-1: b4800c6b7a6d9dba18e85c31258493ed789cde4a SHA-256: 1ff36d87d95e5b0a4ade422d17bbf2b2b668ccf795b64fcf2ecca7839b9caa82
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. The document body is heavily obfuscated but contains URLs that are part of a link farm, likely intended to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.com/pify?keyword=alphabet+francais+minuscule+pdf
    • http://files.imablumm.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164272/xufipu.pdf
    • http://files.cpdesignsco.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303329/47ed5b4.pdf
    • http://files.zenergieconseil.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681660/musipo.pdf
    • http://files.olympicclassictbirds.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775126/4612741.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6341/9814/files/read_all_about_me_poster.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8014/6339/files/povizatisinapenepal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3080/6679/files/teluduzuwiwovuzadesetore.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0990/8637/files/zobexonaramifu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2195/4206/files/dan_abnett_double_eagle.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6535/2093/files/1845860810.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4527/3251/files/46802955902.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/52244446143.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0840/9250/files/fikigu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2440/8988/files/81475655899.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1341/2760/files/the_old_man_and_the_sea_short_summary.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2466/1154/files/34827938213.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7618/8315/files/90340942184.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_off0000561f.bin
6df1c71617d6e0d242c95972db31a227f40775bac878d33fc3123726345d0a41
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x561F 5524 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000068b6.bin
928a507bf1808f77d7ad5243ca0cf4173d6c7f33bf1e2d4bcc6912af994d2859
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68B6 9748 bytes