Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58f0ab31255c65cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-04 20:41:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0b6d716daf90988f8d1295157b9e3ec4 SHA-1: 2a5710c15fe55905e532cd82ddc9dfc0ac2d4680 SHA-256: 58f0ab31255c65cce860ef6f801b893ed3626b40d95d155b3e3f4e51e4d056bf
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded external links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that appear to be part of a link farm, likely intended to manipulate search engine results or lead users to 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.ru/pify?keyword=architecture+database+pdf
    • http://files.sudermanmath.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380210/eda7fd3.pdf
    • http://files.richlandarp.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070912/riwibanaj_jezedadakova_mikuvifekew_kafotid.pdf
    • http://fidaf.scotlandflowersandmore.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695615/minafu.pdf
    • http://files.mountaindreamer.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384663/5666146.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7406/8390/files/50663009344.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tagitigupi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7175/0823/files/96340735165.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2588/2518/files/28419387519.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0133/0339/files/40256967141.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2646/3385/files/sotivemoruzigeferitin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7751/5929/files/mobabasigusaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9617/7816/files/kofotalabi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8266/1526/files/58671197079.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2044/3045/files/20572555173.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0319/9136/files/30211991387.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_off0000657b.bin
2e748671083fbb874aca16b00534a1251643757aba9683c65d696f0dd4083e9a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x657B 5340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007799.bin
12ff863a5ca3301696cbee286ce0248f526ea74d6f2241772e2ba5889e0f788d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7799 9956 bytes