Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86326ef6f9967f7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.5 KB Created: 2020-08-08 05:08:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cbd111a7d2a6fb8f0e3d5c04c909dc0b SHA-1: 928462ea650567621688df9e8069f9e1ba728d20 SHA-256: 86326ef6f9967f7b1daeff2bbb9c38dcd20c9d1f741426ff2a605b1cf5f713c4
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that is also flagged as malicious. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the overall structure suggests a phishing or redirection attempt.

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.com/pify?keyword=boxing+training+routine+pdf
    • http://files.spcwaterdistrict.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382320/nuvugeguk.pdf
    • http://venek.wilsonfeed.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740435/7619818.pdf
    • http://files.missiongolfacademy.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409074/someke_juxozugode_goxetenumabi.pdf
    • http://xananod.mvireland.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776760/4846791.pdf
    • http://files.edotsdesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813887/4843517.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0577/1929/files/1085734544.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8118/8003/files/dajirugalu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1450/4093/files/nutelosumezebepane.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5271/9515/files/70151032747.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8602/0761/files/duduzubuwexejoxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7612/4821/files/85665173747.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/6187/4583/files/join_files_into_one.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6911/1449/files/91913224165.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3314/1149/files/kifirizigomorolewofovix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8714/8694/files/vunixisutakaborek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3926/8774/files/pomisokekimufebalakenos.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_off00009065.bin
213ebfe370b568f3afe33f63fb74db4296aa8e8090bc7ccd8249fcb4c4004402
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9065 5116 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a1ef.bin
a0e89fdea445bf3967c6f1e807f28d0b4135f88d1914c8393617720055bfecb4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA1EF 10260 bytes