Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 824bb2c674ab84aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-08 01:19:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 103128e1c560331abdd0f1fe51e8dfe3 SHA-1: 4c0dea23f53ae168572b748b45d2218d2586c31f SHA-256: 824bb2c674ab84aabb008fb938dd83f3483ae2796708d2be8300059d738739b5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious and contains numerous embedded URLs. One URL points to a known malicious redirector, and many others form a link farm hosted on Shopify. The document body contains text related to 'carte de visite' and 'publisher pdf', suggesting a lure, and the presence of a link farm indicates an attempt to distribute malicious content or SEO spam.

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=carte+de+visite+recto+verso+avec+publisher+pdf
    • http://files.evangelizenorcal.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607237/risoruguxamado.pdf
    • http://files.mindbodyevolution.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775633/8153035.pdf
    • http://files.fantailphotos.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407179/xezur-nuzosimev-vemuxabaki-zabejusijape.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3798/2869/files/xeziwexijap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9728/3992/files/basic_knowledge_of_electronics_and_communication_engineering.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1459/4466/files/27856752523.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/97503793953.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6825/2565/files/90809798629.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3095/4655/files/wovexiwe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/48695811849.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7224/8215/files/42896387641.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9570/4227/files/65299115017.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5411/2672/files/madalekotibapikigujitaweg.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_off00006d59.bin
e5b3de2eaab57e8a869a40c36e491adcd143c415c1234c19a3f786f47d9a2118
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D59 5348 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f82.bin
1cfa69625cadc36b0a005a537b34e8c024dc31b5663268fcaf08a649e2424b0f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F82 11948 bytes