Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e8bf181803dbc4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.2 KB Created: 2020-08-04 15:31:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: de902e70c1c3deee258dca7ea81b7665 SHA-1: 62f47048be5d48c7e90200c8774a59de146ba1c8 SHA-256: 7e8bf181803dbc4d78341d3d3b018dc448d5bc79d5598d6b1daed642b6ff4269
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body appears to be malformed or obfuscated, but the presence of numerous links, including the malicious redirector, suggests an attempt to lure users to harmful content or manipulate search engine results.

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=atoms+molecules+and+ions+questions+and+answers+pdf
    • http://files.kathleenhilchey.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695714/f913c82fa1a382.pdf
    • http://files.uniarq.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740435/7482373.pdf
    • http://files.gulfcoasteventsllc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695568/4ab473a7d826.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8259/6004/files/wabewenimirumel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dusegu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3989/0327/files/66229290251.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1157/8776/files/11645001125.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9540/7269/files/veximajowogema.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6916/1110/files/a_arte_de_ter_razo_arthur_schopenhauer_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2951/0814/files/24690443623.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7871/2472/files/20599917073.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3640/8982/files/lurilajusofam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9733/3668/files/dorixa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/4022/3911/files/multiplying_integers_worksheet_grade_6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6955/4332/files/wekemazedob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2682/4859/files/10405514283.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_off0000838f.bin
72e664a3e780a26a1f364a86e75905abdf846f2167e3cc6f24f3ecd8c6ffcffe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x838F 5508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009642.bin
1b890e250c98c763f8dd973e256c82e01a365d4adbe67a87fd46575b92758b56
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9642 12820 bytes