Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 888c6256d61e993f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.4 KB Created: 2020-08-19 13:15:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1cded3d5e9924d314d12fd85a217a39d SHA-1: 518210a19f4581bba6b64ec7001f3a1722a80918 SHA-256: 888c6256d61e993ff66fb76b8df778ca302f4994a88a5204eb96a5f5f470029b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Another critical heuristic identified a large external PDF link farm, with many links hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of these numerous links suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results.

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=challa+full+song++uri
    • http://files.ladybug5k.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740606/wabepude-dujipazuked.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7120/1695/files/16369074441.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9544/8988/files/dying_to_be_me_anita_moorjani.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4283/8427/files/60777718813.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/3461/9549/files/garmin_forerunner_405_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9128/7461/files/tavorajaxerawomadozafudo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7132/1752/files/xazabenoliral.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2857/6416/files/mavoxuganulajexakagadakez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7354/5116/files/albany_state_university_application.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/98690712505.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8852/7013/files/32737442233.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4456/8216/files/33276539217.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6495/0945/files/58330585564.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8542/2997/files/83916070240.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000043d8.bin
3d14d6be44a9f694b7d3140e157780788a483db976bf79ca0f6660fbbb0dedf3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x43D8 4936 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000549a.bin
fc9fdf3da255c562f4406adbdc03be292d725ea2ab4c0956f351fbe52db73aed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x549A 9544 bytes