Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8533c1496e8e1217…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.0 KB Created: 2020-08-20 07:23:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b5e11882e191d72d6f27710c51c3e5da SHA-1: 685ed24ccee17fd80e4a8d12e36c2ac0d8b26702 SHA-256: 8533c1496e8e1217f865413230b901805a24fd40b7646ad056be7451a6b607c9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to redirector infrastructure or potentially malicious domains, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristics. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded content, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain URLs that are part of a link farm designed to drive traffic to malicious sites.

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=png+background+hd+full
    • http://fakux.americanpolicenews.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740228/bosofepuvuwezus_kitibemo_surevive_betale.pdf
    • http://kepapev.aeherting.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710621/nofej.pdf
    • http://files.liliaperez.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740165/potefilepe.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sarexomerowomowubufo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9465/4632/files/74773191411.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8305/5782/files/66673508425.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0096/1947/files/jeguzawudajifulede.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9059/8305/files/credit_card_pre_authorization_form_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9599/9129/files/6902439916.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5664/4774/files/the_art_of_electronics_3rd_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1468/3813/files/kosiwutivozokizixazegepeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/siwizobudavegi.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_off00004251.bin
5707f97597a743935205b082a38f946159659c807ac6f426f5fd81781b0d9db5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4251 5312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005450.bin
79c7aa5a8787a2d54649094acfb692696437bbe6051163ddb9284527a5999ec9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5450 9256 bytes