Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88e5856ad611eb9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.0 KB Created: 2020-08-18 21:16:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7567dc9a8a59a84bd6a48e56f17f95bf SHA-1: 6d8d33d7f72ec45f5b8b65c261730a4ec706994f SHA-256: 88e5856ad611eb9c7a37ca96080323042495faca9da66c675f316226a05fdd0b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link and a large number of external PDF links, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious content or phishing pages.

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=anglo+link+english+grammar+pdf
    • http://files.redbird-designs.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682585/bunifonudewezozige.pdf
    • http://files.blackdragoninnercircle.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874655/9406342.pdf
    • http://getolefi.lifestreamfamilywellness.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437709/d94cd82c7841e.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4684/6107/files/93745446966.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9715/1904/files/53077147366.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4818/9603/files/68022923786.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6734/1974/files/fapodosikonef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2565/2136/files/capacity_building_program.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0416/5285/files/netetibagerurenif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/fapodepemiretewuroraga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4737/7301/files/nilukugewezamezakux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6635/2025/files/sopasu.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000484d.bin
c09337dd4df7ee21c2e581c0a4595e637591189d58b93b3805d62fdf95c15cb4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x484D 5216 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000059cc.bin
cb9a0d111a6efd87d69193ace615f806a8c8d03b1784d3dbe830a14132badbb8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59CC 9236 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007959.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7959 4324 bytes