Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88d036aad8b49e15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.4 KB Created: 2020-09-01 08:51:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 139cd21731daf5a33ddf85f6a8ff5ea8 SHA-1: 8fb01e9c5a5489411f7c312cc9ee22291c177151 SHA-256: 88d036aad8b49e15b3961cf13f37a7f968e4141583bd8768c1ee96dcf81a8acd
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to fonts and includes the malicious URL. This suggests the document is designed to trick users into clicking the link, likely to download malware or be phished. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links are sufficient for this assessment.

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.cc/pify?keyword=bangla+typography+font+free
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/704566_7490face56fb473daa23912d31f115a4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/07e02c_84d97e5709d1428eb736fd29a7d246e9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f515ca_7a2f931c6c3d47729933433770e3aaf7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5b5da7_50eaea28806b4340b7f07ed06423aaa2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2c250_b8e2e87a0ceb427ca2e6a87ffe7fe341.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b77b08_c9f93cebec2b4913b563d18527fbc40c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8acad3_67e763f74cb44550be475350afbaff02.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3725/3023/files/96778612354.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6086/2874/files/cambridge_checkpoint_english_past_papers_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5465/1799/files/65550914088.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6784/2459/files/kefutarukepew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1553/5774/files/94619094174.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_off00004a9f.bin
8016a866ea03c1ba0a8935b8a2735c847e6964b6a45151aede329bfbe3869a1c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A9F 5136 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005c21.bin
31c224533f91454d1987020c254c466ed79d25f0337e4004c8619212482e6f88
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C21 9644 bytes