Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80ccdbab291a7e82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-23 07:41:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 826ad955053e1295a153ba9f69cfaefe SHA-1: 9c4e4243b01ebcab8351a3c4c2f219ac6859cf40 SHA-256: 80ccdbab291a7e827e734a74e10ad700c019481f01d94aa542e890395ac39c1c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that appear to be part of a link farm, aiming to direct users to potentially harmful content. 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=earthquake+intensity+and+magnitude+worksheet
    • http://gaguxamep.fleurspressed.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696067/4703236.pdf
    • http://files.riversideministries.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969241/0476adc11.pdf
    • http://files.spencersnygg.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637477/bofipogisamew-wajazu-tilurijiba-pexixupegus.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5117/1478/files/40326203687.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4573/2007/files/nogaxesade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4630/4920/files/xapesozipura.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3979/3050/files/fodedunuweti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7636/2150/files/62244409185.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3122/2689/files/hydraulic_bearing_puller.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8231/7975/files/microbial_ecology_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1903/5033/files/punctuation_marks_quiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8212/0358/files/70277933334.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1962/2808/files/extent_report_gradle_dependency.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8440/6181/files/revagedivepiwujitawi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7929/5385/files/bugetopowasusa.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_off0000650b.bin
60fee08864994453ca0aa243450219bbc1945fdd3739c01e107bc124fcf957a2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x650B 5548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000077cd.bin
f5f3694c26384a1227c4273b4693fed831acaf47a02bbd7b65f6e84044c93fe9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77CD 10272 bytes