Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d3af40b8339aa5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-08-09 12:45:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eff0fe007e11c9dfcce6f191627cc1cc SHA-1: e8ad599040a0f61a56b7d4d4b4840eb4f5e5163a SHA-256: 8d3af40b8339aa5ca09f347b333666cdb85916d98a9e6d828589d7a5a5f30dfa
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes text related to 'exercises for lower back pain relief pdf' and a URL pointing to a redirector. This suggests a social engineering tactic to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or malware delivery.

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=exercises+for+lower+back+pain+relief+pdf
    • http://zebufuza.bradhurstjr.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606289/sirezop-wovufivatugi.pdf
    • http://files.veilofyork.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606227/xetez.pdf
    • http://files.nicolettelynch.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379743/5030429.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8094/1729/files/39832976877.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9740/0223/files/lirerozutimokomuzoxedebit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2711/1841/files/5835738059.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4015/1454/files/85654431553.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5596/4569/files/wiralufetobowefagiguzez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1619/1125/files/86385762710.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3123/2674/files/fourier_series_formula_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9717/7768/files/13998876759.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9885/7891/files/63026815817.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/1826/0377/files/deadmire_wow_classic.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2397/2005/files/relutixopikogilobadal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8158/1209/files/tixufuwilonifemidofusir.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_off00006ec8.bin
23d0c610d7d5778a6679aa8f69470e627aff20730a780caf4a732ffe62dd8131
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EC8 5472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000818c.bin
c4f65b49743c04844609cebe63d66fd98bdbf1a03108e7d94122043263532323
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x818C 10300 bytes