Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 582d8e064b748619…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-08-12 17:05:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c56e46889d9039a7a21513be3f7e6977 SHA-1: a92c6bac3841eb631c4a7a5f9ea75b36d957e754 SHA-256: 582d8e064b7486197e7d86b29f8ed0117add5572436bcfc0353beafd6eeccef9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment 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 URLs that are part of a link farm, suggesting a SEO poisoning or redirection attack. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload delivery.

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=carbon+and+nitrogen+cycle+pdf
    • http://xepine.buildidahogreen.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813332/208e33570.pdf
    • http://wunad.lifeteaa.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453574/towirigeze_wekexonilesexe_lanulurizi_xulepogezu.pdf
    • http://tepedono.oiaracing.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739777/df83c.pdf
    • http://toxev.noreencoupenpleinair.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606758/cbcccf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9480/2583/files/gukumikufusu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5152/4001/files/vawogal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8437/3406/files/linear_programming_in_r.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4742/6975/files/pedialyte_nutrition_label.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6705/7063/files/kamuzixidunusurimale.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5519/4011/files/fetexajewarovoneku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mubexuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/97697777452.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7958/1352/files/84753507293.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1634/8057/files/tisutojawufidovexasobu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nuruge.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_off000060dc.bin
2287a5ccc01dc7650f25e4538c20c9640598daf7309469defa96c1418906d695
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60DC 5292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072f2.bin
b0388df8840cc4d2c7af32bb96f4a5a6f220b6d29a5ce6d1f23215cf4575f218
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72F2 10120 bytes