Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c9839ffae632789…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.5 KB Created: 2020-08-24 01:40:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: edda7a053c1d0b3a67745671d55274f8 SHA-1: 8b691ff3d518a7719fd383a6b2c20e40cd4f0937 SHA-256: 8c9839ffae6327896fa4366ab32563f37e81d806f61ac18c7754955d44567d84
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a critical heuristic for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, and another critical heuristic for containing a mass external PDF link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains obfuscated text and embedded URLs, including a link to a redirector service that likely leads to a malicious payload. The presence of numerous links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs but others to unknown domains and the redirector, suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content.

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=regolamento+uniformi+carabinieri+2018
    • http://files.touchedbynangel.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407144/4046270.pdf
    • http://files.soulmapmandalas.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437181/geperojijob.pdf
    • http://files.isshinryunj.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438111/rukume_kezopokine_pupekutikogoz_valasesugumupax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4131/6249/files/86234581800.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8446/1720/files/purinivifu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1691/2023/files/9964357939.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3689/3599/files/his_highness_abdulla_malayalam_movie_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1746/0120/files/73934592510.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5596/2522/files/10100655808.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0147/8300/files/aplicaciones_de_la_genetica_en_la_medicina.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9930/6649/files/bescherelle_la_conjugaison_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0477/1999/files/92112730063.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4295/5687/files/soa_exam_p_sample_questions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3976/9254/files/gumubukabom.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_off00005389.bin
a9620b9e9577f824930feac6663bae8da535e51ca85b7fe6a81a97d2199af83c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5389 5692 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000066dc.bin
c3d46d85d0d287cd0251d73a008a7cfc207604f2384a9fe659ce25a852dcb078
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66DC 10612 bytes