Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8391e07c73244650…

MALICIOUS

PDF

124.2 KB Created: 2020-08-20 13:49:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 53311f47746479a5a5b230c6d08a6c47 SHA-1: a208a55791ffeafa7970d15356a78985faf530d3 SHA-256: 8391e07c732446509e0056cbe2b6f0ee475e73f3ed91761891177c3839b7c0a7
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=renaissancere+holdings+ltd+annual+report', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to an annual report, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, including one hosted on Shopify, further supports the link farm tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=renaissancere+holdings+ltd+annual+report
    • http://files.livewithamission.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454316/juluxamamujalifosowa.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8996/1884/files/71588511517.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4245/5195/files/fipopelixujeveboruji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6220/6357/files/aramaic_interlinear_new_testament.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/0011/3813/files/la_comadre_sebastiana_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2007/2613/files/76741535960.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9199/8360/files/rotasodogupaseguwafaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1231/6584/files/47541295337.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8293/8520/files/33351223297.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6556/3549/files/95748519469.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_off0001a288.bin
c12cd4902d34fb91ca44a0df73390ba4e598e0b776a5e98fb27bb007738ee6aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A288 5340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001b4aa.bin
1d07e40c1da0ab2fa3196ef5193c00329c07705872d5a10a4897feee1f216ba6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B4AA 14388 bytes