Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72d8edaac5b98fa0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-15 18:44:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ea2cc06259d63f5c7dcf08648086506f SHA-1: b724cfb347ee4ab7302dce2019500b949ebe4e21 SHA-256: 72d8edaac5b98fa022088e9cf66066083df160c94f80e75fc4c9a9100f2a9890
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, many pointing to external PDF files hosted on platforms like Shopify. One prominent link directs to a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO manipulation scheme, potentially leading users to malicious content or phishing sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.com/pify?keyword=balanitis+tratamiento+topico+pdf
    • http://files.spi-researchcentre.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636655/2414909.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nenipuwewof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/32878299647.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2493/3287/files/wutupetafuwalaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2741/4696/files/92133773347.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0020/9309/files/tebefagadejuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6393/5129/files/zisis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9580/0475/files/catering_menu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1792/7837/files/28650089290.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0654/8377/files/prentice_hall_chemistry_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4203/7150/files/interesting_gk_questions_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0209/9873/files/telalizatedeliwuxib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2530/9601/files/46520426918.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_off00006146.bin
e1e47272da8edeb109706b75894651697f27c52de4f98fd209d3460146ad4a81
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6146 5348 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007351.bin
d16035664984ac87d87530d3ee01b37f1aeffc45a39502ddf6479f64afa65a96
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7351 11388 bytes