Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8db5933dd8be292e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-22 10:09:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 14ef913db5ef8f703aca1b92ad527a19 SHA-1: c1e0e224714be7a3fc4e7b1ec3a281e8f8582ad7 SHA-256: 8db5933dd8be292ec400daf97aff0671b11ef1bccef4d850b4bed2457993a01c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that was flagged as a malicious redirector, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous Shopify links points to a potential link farm or SEO manipulation tactic.

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=free+printable+christmas+flyer+templates+word
    • http://files.treeservicenaplesbonitamarco.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739835/bd18927d72.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7789/2251/files/25042011946.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2011/6380/files/56955600187.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0705/7825/files/kambikuttan_novel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8244/1113/files/situmapilik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8177/6795/files/bruchgleichungen_lsen_aufgaben.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3576/1576/files/65487553863.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6019/1637/files/27923654738.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1699/4466/files/20154300848.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9235/2932/files/counter_uav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7058/7029/files/gixinufoxowamefonefo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8909/9938/files/agreement_template_nz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3002/7157/files/89170213140.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005ad8.bin
d6561755f9e29651d851fbfc36e06b25125de442962a365453d2aa4bb5c4b40c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AD8 5472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d47.bin
0063a09f87a5ba6758f99976be16c34a12701608e1ceb836c042cd8bfb6d5687
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D47 10336 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000090a1.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90A1 4324 bytes