Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9964eba5f0bfe5c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-08-24 21:30:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ee7fe7e849b91a27610249a6fca8e45f SHA-1: 691d055899d7ea42c8f93f9ef1b7a9611bb5bf7f SHA-256: 9964eba5f0bfe5c0ca7bca3e13e6f2a9bde8618964c1ff117a61d29aacaa5ef7
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, embedding numerous external links. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggered the malicious redirector heuristic, suggesting an attempt to lure users to potentially harmful content.

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=metformin+pregnancy+category+mims
    • http://files.oratoryschools.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384679/a9ecf303ad00a.pdf
    • http://files.lmkidlife.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969428/4329242.pdf
    • http://files.mathsict.shenfieldlearning.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969704/mizumimugumoxu-xisuzapotej-tikek.pdf
    • http://files.thinnerstrongerhappier.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738971/60ddc79.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1505/7062/files/union_budget_2020_key_highlights.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0948/1624/files/67612700931.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7426/3963/files/xazonederopikofew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6104/3605/files/13622307084.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2538/2051/files/83051127270.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1572/3414/files/35204941626.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2987/3318/files/sudibufawipesa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9578/4600/files/90463955927.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1030/9787/files/vidogafido.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8990/3264/files/88219205832.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3848/2332/files/soundcloud_to_mp3.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_off00006c75.bin
327f96ef1763dbd880ec1f494eb9d42ed241f63681e73bce9b7cae701ec85372
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C75 5408 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007edc.bin
0b521aabe37f9a84279555aab39984e992482ba12e87e83b5367885987b64a4f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EDC 10380 bytes