Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96ee55ef9944ce71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-03 05:29:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 31098da88e1ad62066ce45be49ea4484 SHA-1: 4cc69efee159f3521e0e7cfbf5832674d4176a47 SHA-256: 96ee55ef9944ce71873eb5454963d897d49cc107f1dc511fd540d38fcde51ecb
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body text is heavily obfuscated but contains a URL that appears to be part of the link farm. The primary attack pattern involves a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further payloads.

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=github+io+pages
    • http://files.triciabskincare.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302859/4884941.pdf
    • http://files.raghuananthanarayanan.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437312/worojuwon.pdf
    • http://files.housingnearihop.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069915/vamutidarinap.pdf
    • http://files.kristineasselin.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164052/jikotefugofivikazas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6579/4965/files/26520986556.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3510/6203/files/xomavifejujurel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0174/1463/files/gevixakawananek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5477/5970/files/alpha_symbol_mac.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5469/3537/files/wigejabiduboxer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8298/1281/files/44361932616.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4196/4710/files/muzova.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4757/4949/files/21939432098.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5546/4104/files/57104942809.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/romiket.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5704/4904/files/18496816607.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_off000062fb.bin
76af83249a9e70cb2f0ac4e0cffb6a1e222a9b8bc5e87f28eb4a21e69b21a403
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62FB 5124 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000746b.bin
bcd14a33f563dc63d102637bb90fc1c7cf02f1bc7b8dadb001021f02893ae815
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x746B 13444 bytes