Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38712f8dc4e24c53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.0 KB Created: 2020-09-13 16:13:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f54b1a6dcef99bef29b0749b53b0f40d SHA-1: 2633e92bc49a94a7d12b5bb2ee4cc3d986f69fb1 SHA-256: 38712f8dc4e24c5373c2b21d7bdc7646a362924c5f9d093492ccb1eb90799e27
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious redirector URL, suggesting the primary purpose is to lure users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload execution.

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.link/wix?keyword=spim+hri+2020
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4433/8838/files/51351886726.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/27588499931.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8353/8331/files/sefogesa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5221/9030/files/arandano_rojo_propiedades.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1551/9912/files/zapekupibubivizolej.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cac9e4_c6b0185823d646cbb316aa567048c7d3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/46429b_f3b81b0cbe3445478bd778c2e8120f76.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d4579c_35083a9c57d04ebb99a8be53cfb6e4bf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1715bf_b3157761082d4c949f8061489fa99b9a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/20d83a_dc6b9a2e320a413dba895e9d246ce2f4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5a4c69_6f675874e55d4577865989d1d6d46119.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/96a426_76fcc5913be1481a9fe81073ab662e09.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bfd504_145d0db322ee4dce828b7c12ebd31fad.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000081bd.bin
29a5708eeaa49de417fe7ffad8e1c043c71ead9023fb5eebd2b34a8f942dc607
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81BD 16124 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b146.bin
bd4dd370d6e1eb156f6bda650abe1db05093cd9d02a10d04bd82b445be54d5e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB146 4392 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000c003.bin
2ac665d0380200f8cad34e9122f2fdc8e3278c43f27bf0a42007a99d178934f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC003 17988 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000f521.bin
7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF521 4324 bytes