Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb5886f2b135523a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-09 15:33:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d3732520db482556c2bd00d3eaed103e SHA-1: 4c7ed16f4630b72d472facc487016345a5fe036a SHA-256: bb5886f2b135523a99c8f8e74aa1ebc725bd17b652df81c21fcfe2103345a6e9
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link that redirects to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggers this redirection. The PDF also functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous other PDFs, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=ishihara+colour+blindness+test+pdf
    • http://files.denitsashopova.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070971/4504343.pdf
    • http://giwader.opusmusicpublishers.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710712/nowizujusitonopomu.pdf
    • http://files.enterhisgatescamp.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381480/8afc9c8a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2998/7489/files/tojojevib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5657/0266/files/7756090900.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4162/0119/files/nelson_essentials_of_pediatrics_7th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9932/4580/files/28060116143.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5517/6097/files/disc_personality_types.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5522/6773/files/papegemorapujol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/61259485886.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8638/8123/files/62728318437.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5509/5716/files/vanakexevujobi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8584/6933/files/26019061944.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3993/2067/files/28310001136.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7470/7868/files/rugemagagesunisatene.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6079/6318/files/report_on_road_accident_in_bangladesh.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_off00006ed2.bin
d06099a235d4d83b5c4ab6dbeda70403802ba269a119195ba1840d51b2f13a84
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ED2 5320 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000080dc.bin
9cc923fc25fa21c2ec8280bb36ed0d71e7561377035ade8573d76c1bb4cc9a46
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80DC 10576 bytes