Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cc8bf8f130e13a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-29 21:19:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fa0e0d185389941e876c9c3b046b6369 SHA-1: c28bfff4fb1f95891e6b47b4abacd2699db1cf55 SHA-256: 2cc8bf8f130e13a141ac1d383bc25ace35a34531384abb2b961e67c3901c13dc
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that align with the heuristic findings, suggesting a lure to external malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the sheer volume of links points to a distribution or phishing attempt.

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/wix?keyword=haramase+simulator+achievement+guide
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b2c09_da8dbf56677b4eb1a9e5ae6b031f0ab6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_14adb31cc52b42c2910f88d46b30196b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/16a96a_575490ab0bc345639950f7b38c57a667.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6980/9564/files/jelifokidilifutofekituf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2359/7725/files/referat_bronkopneumonia_pada_anak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9972/4702/files/ceiling_design_catalogue.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b48b60_8c970b895e824beba4552c6994deca9b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d7202ca3fb5d4b8d985085529222a7bb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e9c4ddd1fcf14e5c8f4eefad11cccdba.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5746a26cc9f74eae8e1b5bb451138be4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cb75d11265aa45b1b0b60703d289c4e7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e745be_a8818e9b97d843399ef0b5e9a9d1e1f0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_656ce08bdef74d79b041bd03c11c0ef3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a8977a81fa1544d79f2289a7fe1f5aff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_211b042e00ef4f7db3cbe1061efb60dd.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_off00006283.bin
686650deafac4755b15f13c24b218b4c89552bb1bea3f608283d90ea48e549e7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6283 5376 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000749f.bin
581ebe2de11f4cda917fb94b92d385211302ed8e8e257369a52407225eb9f195
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x749F 9968 bytes