Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78ece6d36edb9409…

MALICIOUS

PDF

127.2 KB Created: 2020-08-08 05:29:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 192f483f0a1f2d0df8781d6064afad0b SHA-1: 31873c7d74b075459f4e619dfd28cc101a49e766 SHA-256: 78ece6d36edb940906452601521d14022cd5d39892ea3fb16159f6c77feca040
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Another critical heuristic identified a large external PDF link farm, suggesting a potential SEO manipulation or redirection scheme. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of suspicious links points towards a malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

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=american+english+file+1+pdf+second+edition
    • http://files.liftbaltimore.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453121/1379631.pdf
    • http://ramovo.gulfcoastdi.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856462/gotunofifigo_sigav_wonakiz_zowemadufu.pdf
    • http://nulisumus.zportman.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695384/fosubozuvik_nelawot_misojotenixo_gigefoti.pdf
    • http://leziset.doctorshousesozopol.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680813/8686159.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/webomobituwisumepepaxifi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6559/7342/files/brasart_160_bula.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/85450973079.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5214/6587/files/26527018948.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kexikebesadunav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6776/0028/files/empirical_and_molecular_formula.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6057/5894/files/graphic_design_books_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7460/0598/files/65444166054.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5852/7397/files/pineze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9693/2501/files/sherlock_holmes_deductive_reasoning.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_off0001a98f.bin
7835eb99b4e69ebe20a9d7634ded9db076e6dcb81079af3d14542ab1d1b8b9a4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A98F 5612 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001bc7d.bin
5a844b34f7b864839069abfd7b3d771681fa909b3cf030044bd1ee6ce95d2744
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BC7D 15996 bytes