Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f7f9c96126ba0e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.2 KB Created: 2020-08-05 17:04:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1cca2fd6a3a707373bbd33b04e00d77f SHA-1: e335743e1361d4b94eb42e15636a9a66d2e1566c SHA-256: 8f7f9c96126ba0e3e6958c6d210de718e44b97a58aa8279b9f87bae2c0100a33
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body text and embedded links suggest a lure for free PDF downloads, which is a common social engineering tactic. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=byomkesh+bakshi+free+pdf+download
    • http://files.solanaenergy.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682039/8526103.pdf
    • http://files.triadukulele.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069832/nuwaduduzomop.pdf
    • http://files.bransfordmedpsych.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483002/palonilazumorilurod.pdf
    • http://files.andthatmeanscomfort.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453950/7703264.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6204/2529/files/wernicke_s_aphasia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9217/3217/files/mogekububovegufonewele.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9103/3250/files/96671367169.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8471/7979/files/nevapigekenavaxixomax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0305/1171/files/tefagigikutogakumamatusu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3159/3113/files/sejolexutobotojem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3917/0466/files/20535347082.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0079/9140/files/27223363429.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5769/2315/files/77571704169.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5085/2762/files/3762909362.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8189/9944/files/13541081968.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8631/5684/files/convert_to_word_arabic_font.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9930/8700/files/74113601546.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_off000072b1.bin
762e99c728236ca2c986abfc1bbd412ff180e7d26f3b50bd57da0611ada83974
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72B1 5728 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000861d.bin
3a055b4a9b2a07a327578dc9f06c7277a14988eb64d9ffa95b5896da53d47062
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x861D 14596 bytes