Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f8d074f77277aca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.8 KB Created: 2020-08-21 21:09:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9189059defc48fd347b06d07980a2407 SHA-1: caccf270d280569d85f1105b1ecffa52b233db3c SHA-256: 5f8d074f77277aca890e77643bb4d1f36e4931feea0f18295c79766fe3bea5f1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains URLs. This suggests the primary goal is to lure users to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or phishing. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=erasure+a+little+respect+sheet+music+pdf
    • http://files.yaaction.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813821/2e3093ee5f0025.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7995/7669/files/alimentacion_saludable_adolescentes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3826/7809/files/spongebob_characters_coloring_sheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/12086745869.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2315/5878/files/5630895211.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9201/7305/files/95519585754.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8392/2585/files/88752290973.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6999/7217/files/kojowiratumovitot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6732/6110/files/79291048195.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9843/9837/files/xadezogugulepotepuga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1829/6228/files/41597848486.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004c74.bin
db77da5ccba9ce9b04a8c646653966b10ece14330e0117f89849b2d6ee6697ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4C74 5352 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005e81.bin
fe2011897570265e26443378763d7a89c666a95ccb8a70da4c6787d4e77ff033
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E81 10592 bytes