Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86c3bdc0296dab30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.5 KB Created: 2020-08-17 06:50:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 48ee146275bba74401392c1342652c09 SHA-1: 917109f7593d1f5a2f2ce62d4a2618f3307b6298 SHA-256: 86c3bdc0296dab30fb0f55d4a1fba1e49bf07023f137a4d07f72b557614717b6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector. This indicates the document is designed as a link farm to distribute 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.com/pify?keyword=c+function+template+specialization+multiple+parameters
    • http://files.daankahmann.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856112/4447374.pdf
    • http://kipibili.sweetbstoggs.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379945/venofekifenuroxelubu.pdf
    • http://files.amlrcsweeps.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681632/3691537.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6530/3455/files/90449552407.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0335/5034/files/dimab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0693/4688/files/60908802873.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xuvekalododit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1485/6610/files/24293706036.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8904/3358/files/38146191290.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7573/9560/files/pokemon_games_for_gba_roms.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/7793/8855/files/pdf_to_word_converter_software_full_version_with_crack.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0531/2163/files/64730078393.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5657/8212/files/dasimesopul.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_off00008c45.bin
44910d7b3a32e22c7611382149ec11e2a93c6d91848ac447d59e67cf1c767dad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C45 5116 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009d99.bin
c37d8089f4e59537bbb976bc987f7a6ba7151b067dfb9b8508565d80258d1588
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D99 16564 bytes