Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86d8d35e91ecf463…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.2 KB Created: 2020-07-28 15:35:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e2652b0457e8d59dbff280ac647c499e SHA-1: f7c070040782a69f5723b4f6e30207171cc294da SHA-256: 86d8d35e91ecf463778a1b126327180083076e44e191903203544b6739d7df1f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources, indicating a link farm or redirection strategy. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, suggesting an attempt to lead users to harmful sites. 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=wavelet+image+compression+pdf
    • http://files.mackeiganmarketing.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873839/8386677.pdf
    • http://files.bizoncustoms.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776725/nazurolegoneweperez.pdf
    • http://files.michellentherapy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775275/redure.pdf
    • http://files.finksdeli.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406749/digamak-razat-zonaruxixezeso.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2745/5382/files/55308149244.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1087/5815/files/lonowedifitesedoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6635/8934/files/50813645820.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3606/5438/files/febufolilux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5081/0014/files/22219342301.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0499/2421/files/27164429602.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/3294478915.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/38970143778.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5592/2856/files/detofiwajeworonafogadara.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3649/0398/files/86176896935.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7092/2652/files/31303508033.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_off00008ace.bin
6066b3e4f11cb967a9d48be3327ace49852015dc5e1251077f2337d59ab30a20
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8ACE 5336 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009ce4.bin
84d17b8fb2845c8e41a68b4b882cf622c5ed893407e5604d75ec3f30eef62d30
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9CE4 10096 bytes