Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86a842e576a4fa73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.5 KB Created: 2020-08-03 00:54:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 792ba3a094755c2c1d3b02928df85c35 SHA-1: 3b6e072aaa6770a8f351bb4b429e9b8f8138c3d3 SHA-256: 86a842e576a4fa7359044ffe88b7285e7b24c27b48e0335aa9a07a03eb17a109
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector. This suggests a link farm or redirection scheme designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=mcmlxxii+roman+numerals
    • http://files.chrisjsilvaportfolio.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453024/fidifutifofute_bubol.pdf
    • http://files.ledgewoodhills.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407152/85b3f4c0.pdf
    • http://files.watertownctrecreation.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407315/tuxujusirini-jafimav-weninebozasokum.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1224/4134/files/92891889523.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8530/7808/files/62688134969.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5493/0839/files/19050225017.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6593/3985/files/4_gigabytes_to_megabytes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8800/2710/files/49974759452.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2517/0595/files/pasazileraguwazunosu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9110/7742/files/yardi_voyager_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1932/7896/files/11801609131.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2521/1298/files/nesatodarufovosamad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5653/7495/files/2961785184.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5196/6873/files/69328215566.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_off000054b0.bin
231a8c7b44da846690b2fdd5804b616ed28381f08699e940518faaeec303b936
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54B0 5016 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000065b0.bin
4dedbdf983a7d705ecdb50f3a4f9ef670c56018190aef4e3a9dc75c0f8f4048c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65B0 10960 bytes