Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 811c3c4a4eb58193…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-20 11:06:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 082386178a15292c77508fce1fd18933 SHA-1: 9ccc03f11b9bfa020f16f882d607aca91dd351e3 SHA-256: 811c3c4a4eb5819324a1645e5099f784f96ee8eaa0653c468ec21d7c68922c69
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one prominent URL identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'skill sheet' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially spread malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.cc/pify?keyword=needle+cricothyrotomy+skill+sheet
    • http://files.tacdistancerunners.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775998/nifakaguzavawes-xukugu-lurofumuteva.pdf
    • http://files.samuellutheran.net/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815343/zevitikeselesojigit.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0633/6930/files/dirozobugizakemipaxugebed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5117/9416/files/59626021976.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0481/0648/files/sexikutuditekoneperod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5892/1621/files/35088200415.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4021/1105/files/huawei_mate_10_android_9_mexico.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8819/9332/files/angry_birds_rio_2_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1045/7753/files/5604639583.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0878/5562/files/pimevutelapunila.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8499/7017/files/80755890913.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_off000066a5.bin
7e8e5802bd013b58e4f222d98cd7d69714f922a91d1fb54447aa6acce99aa142
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66A5 5104 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000077e4.bin
d9b0c08d837f4a291459eec5f08a74835cf7c935d598b9c33f7bf6dc9c85c415
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77E4 9764 bytes