Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81ce17394078bd2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-09-01 12:25:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d65fc41d8efca0eab7f16b786fa0e4d7 SHA-1: 9a291ea7bd736b6b27f99fc050894803f10587a7 SHA-256: 81ce17394078bd2b0bd81c6f24e4e4b977113978a1bee1f1aa33b309409ff7e1
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a social engineering attempt to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/wix?keyword=alteryx+designer+11.+5
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2816/0420/files/brainwashed_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/76423385748.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3279/7603/files/massachusetts_driving_permit_test_study_guide.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/353d00_d342de0de327452984b12d0ad1729403.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/89c6ad_686581c6ac1d4ec7aa2f8028d52dc399.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f2b9532331dc4e2fb6faa92178c372c5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7609/1032/files/duwikuxalovexunovisibu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8799/5807/files/43259521349.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8379/2545/files/pour_some_sugar_on_me_meaning.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4d6844_357ff052a63845d3bf9650ebb5a2432e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ca32a8_d3c2c786eabf488697062d63986a606e.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_off00006325.bin
eba89578a7a1eca5f88a33b489c79c9e81bb311148473eb481b7ad0265a7ebc6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6325 5152 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074d7.bin
91cc11e66991917acda2bff5ffe161347c3c94024001e4928eca222b69e94c62
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74D7 13220 bytes