Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86ae24b1d0cfe213…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.4 KB Created: 2020-08-23 19:32:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7def59e7299e79d44243718503e2b295 SHA-1: 2151d4d0d8c84d504d23920d868aba32a6edcb6f SHA-256: 86ae24b1d0cfe213e57a3098dfe0c42682a1e770b0e6566962fad60368de713b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded URLs, with at least one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large collection of external links, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=cbrn+course+full+form
    • http://files.schoolpatio.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407921/laturobepala.pdf
    • http://palute.gulgongeisteddfod.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406344/1973789.pdf
    • http://files.toronto4life.ca/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683289/597475.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/64989875230.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/9402/1030/files/accounting_dictionary_english_to_marathi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9252/3675/files/attitude_magazine_june_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4718/2759/files/63019242075.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5637/3659/files/atlas_de_microbiologia_koneman.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/2988/3048/files/cryogenic_engine_ppt.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7742/7609/files/72450459932.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1116/0738/files/calvert_county_sheriff_accident_reports.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6200/9755/files/berta_v_c3_a1zquez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0360/8216/files/17575499999.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0392/8991/files/cset_math_subtest_1_study_guide.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_off00009c4a.bin
c4b533d0d132c37fde8110abf660d1e41be4c640b39e7a8e68bb5fa0b92317e8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C4A 4864 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000acb8.bin
f8a618c5ee9c087512223061b31e9d9821466bc2b173c755cc9f751c0785d493
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACB8 10644 bytes