Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78e8b2c46a30b8a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.2 KB Created: 2020-08-03 15:27:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 124b78fc4cf97c5ef56751bf0d34b657 SHA-1: 1b3f2d397db13823a4f17aa853cbecd54dd25347 SHA-256: 78e8b2c46a30b8a2ff8f3e0157f15edf4b7ef7c76c6761050a25e3b6967c6392
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a primary redirector URL pointing to known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though obfuscated, contains references to a user manual and embedded URLs, suggesting a lure to trick users into visiting malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent.

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=brocade+network+advisor+san+user+manual+pdf
    • http://files.reemancrc.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775675/9509020.pdf
    • http://files.evbca.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969489/kibazuwobedezogaxa.pdf
    • http://files.monfortestatesdacula.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681002/226bb98.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0768/0405/files/fuvojowulipetaxomimuxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8394/6397/files/fuwete.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0239/5813/files/45722105890.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6364/7137/files/39023373851.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5915/1009/files/housie_tickets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4908/2261/files/39408107121.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7160/2855/files/mamikolefesox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0155/1771/files/kafel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6966/1589/files/interesting_books_to_read_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3135/5807/files/microeconomics_and_behavior_8th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9705/4631/files/matlab_else_if.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8497/1173/files/bomovepirepoxubimikara.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/23631451812.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_off00004eac.bin
f743e675c914358a70a25531c09867dbde62d5f23a8b92dbedae1d6e0ad73087
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4EAC 5568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000061a0.bin
16eecc530d93da7f64a8ad3e1959e0009cc153be74a4586ba8836fa237cf7c90
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61A0 9936 bytes