Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86b838cf628a56af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.8 KB Created: 2020-08-09 11:32:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 572c3749c4827c6e5d0911fdef2d5f99 SHA-1: d3e09842781252d3729a461d5c0462945460c602 SHA-256: 86b838cf628a56af08c03d1699dcb611d8bd3d02c71649ec992353d622e31640
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, identified as a link farm, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a reference to the malicious URL. This suggests the primary purpose is to direct users to malicious sites, likely for SEO spam or phishing.

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=bsl+alphabet+pdf
    • http://sekata.genawave.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384429/05749a3ce.pdf
    • http://wejujekas.hammercan.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380429/7735198.pdf
    • http://files.annegreenwood.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131413678/nexemekero-tasaxasinumer.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7006/2754/files/33608872965.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0364/0999/files/vimowokatuzusetisalizi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8103/1064/files/6157172400.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9603/8812/files/36408521933.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6280/4136/files/lujaxax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1260/1502/files/69957486341.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6200/9755/files/89770718249.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/1587610690.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1791/8870/files/ccat_test_grade_3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4910/6073/files/94786279879.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5283/4717/files/dwm_notification_window.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_off00007d8c.bin
ced6a0fbbccebe73864c2e46db07b2308a94ade516ead0f364cd9e2f083cd485
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D8C 5224 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008f49.bin
519b50a199dc5f31748151379254d84044b24f7db68698a9716e5f9819a6cd99
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F49 10304 bytes