Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98ddca4688794f34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-31 10:55:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e8d640a2066898df25d49e165bec37a1 SHA-1: 9a1506ff570a668653d0b362b57a31a76078ffc1 SHA-256: 98ddca4688794f346eba4dcf0e854c344ae06feb7f19b71e719e715dc3f1bb44
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a mass of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users to potentially harmful sites.

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/wix?keyword=casas+test+practice
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6650/7943/files/central_african_history.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6620/4066/files/tojos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0252/7895/files/bold_in_string_android_studio.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1576/6177/files/22517370341.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cc14e4_a68fbff1130243dfa304debaff99f5f7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dc8a8e_80fea5cef0c444b4885fee06e3df1b03.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87a178_b4732ec580614e299f303c8e517516c3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3e7633e2f5d844e796006973b23c9982.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/67e251_36808438d54a4e55ae5269eb6603d337.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2ddd39_595d18a2a21045a18e3d74d969424065.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1e6f9280bff74ab08132e5d1f533c3a3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b3bc21_213c42403c494e77bf99f7b87e23e783.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f9e2b75fe5cf49abb033ac07ce16b3c0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_75ab08b098444edba480403e2c7413b3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_21299698ec9846c19e961adc3ac3e058.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ab63e3_d8dcc04b1d8e42f380649bd009f4a5f6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0c66bee8f36240ab9f0693405fe6d8ca.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_off00006768.bin
9470862de96fa16b52fc8b9d7e087a3db8e9e446a65831421ea2a3861fedf9fb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6768 4800 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000077c5.bin
cc1eda6f14b09e0628f9f668c0527e9a95fe4d0a2ffa04374a9967fbc2cc56ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77C5 10788 bytes