Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 950006a472803c25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-21 20:57:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 36fa62f8099c855d3076274fb5a714d2 SHA-1: 3a0c0533404ae361a3c8f447b4c84522eddafdc3 SHA-256: 950006a472803c258825354773a733c0b9dc1a333e0d685eafe579bc189b2e74
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 for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK indicating a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'architecture books online free' and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack vector involves luring the user to click on the malicious redirector URL.

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=architecture+books+online+free
    • http://fopom.bridgeportcf.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871787/1802088.pdf
    • http://files.stnectariosgeorgegoc.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163740/2353046.pdf
    • http://files.rudymareelphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164067/2008146.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4937/7177/files/19294728334.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0820/4704/files/siwubevisafuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5396/4712/files/remilarekagifige.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4678/0566/files/86279895603.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/5118/0183/files/all_types_of_sheet_metal_works.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9474/6023/files/31195763979.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/4766/9160/files/94727374389.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/3256/4132/files/cereal_production_in_sri_lanka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6337/7048/files/midnight_crossroad.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_off00006547.bin
0128022a7a78b520b81aae4c9b4742d69fe18d9a6cb165eacbff3aa81e415f60
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6547 4952 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007613.bin
4d01e26b0a652631dbc064b6149207b422ffdcc13b61c4ed2fa45362518e1f5d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7613 10260 bytes