Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88e05cf8d30f7338…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 20:46:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cb4e0721802bcc15d51d9d8b0e4b1e7b SHA-1: c4c19f48ece69a91965be0369a28b310f6cf5373 SHA-256: 88e05cf8d30f7338de89ace60b39ee9ccc235584f47b0575d623d8ce096430e7
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicates a large farm of external PDF links, suggesting an attempt to manipulate SEO or distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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/wix?keyword=hitomi+and+milena
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_92159ea240ab4638bb195d9e6b6e2f53.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3834b_c256e4faa626470f97fef653e7d08c47.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/99afdc_d8805ff66a2243779eba92f4142970f5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0f2dbd3b8701473b8612224cda78fa8c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6a60fd1361b84521a6891fcd4932acbd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f3ac6_b448d486911e4c6b8ba90d7132066f34.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ee299560ee4442fbb99473f9bbd577f1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b2dadf8565b74eac89d806d0b8fb657c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9826/8065/files/how_to_hack_snake.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9850/5369/files/21258265376.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7327/4010/files/22966067931.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/3910/8770/files/56660787527.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6753/0657/files/rapeju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1279/2225/files/single_phase_induction_motor_speed_control_methods.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4976/3494/files/54581274844.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8028/6372/files/12902002919.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_off00004ec6.bin
e3994973284664112e8bdff1c30d80b10b61bba67d016f33818805c130268321
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4EC6 4660 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005e78.bin
0737a02c552668d099f0cf70cdee938bbc5f5220e3a1f5fd524cda714717e39d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E78 10156 bytes