Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 291a02fbb4c4dcb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.1 KB Created: 2020-07-29 12:58:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f4ba9defad84807079ee9b84bc99a321 SHA-1: 60252812e338bdd04ca6d7e4154a904dc60ca1ed SHA-256: 291a02fbb4c4dcb50e78bb378227cd36f002039c98d5b791ebcada57a3635d9b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK confirms this, indicating the document is designed to lead users to harmful sites. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests a large number of outbound links, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious destination. The ML classifier also strongly indicates 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=binomial+probability+distribution+questions+and+solutions+pdf
    • http://files.nchomeremodel.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873738/luzuzijudizomog-bumajusiten.pdf
    • http://files.friendsofgoodwinforest.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874652/dafuse.pdf
    • http://files.honeybeeandblossom.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453540/sirejidavijada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2609/6036/files/fijigu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4593/6534/files/31349146302.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4464/2715/files/64625650380.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/40369191557.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3446/7752/files/widegixifubufovasedezelir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8386/6007/files/jajogulekujil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4061/3286/files/zafobivezixex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5119/5299/files/9519385734.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0360/8216/files/39538862277.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0610/7552/files/bolisozulekapa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8482/4222/files/devejonibewulo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7034/0772/files/64250303605.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/4036

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000099b8.bin
8fc7b238e114d8f7fbebc046ca4057669abeb00ad776e16b95cea11e35215071
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99B8 5488 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ac32.bin
baeb955bc94c663860f6693b09b4699f351f566dae0603f896b25a3963adcf0d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC32 16160 bytes