Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4d5bfb81cb1d723…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.1 KB Created: 2020-08-13 22:42:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 261e9d338416420410e7e01a4688fa9b SHA-1: f70849872813606005a994e191f99af2c2dce16c SHA-256: c4d5bfb81cb1d7239c52f9bb8554bf72f4fc7768ccbea2c7fa86262d64294b0f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, many of which point to potentially malicious or unknown domains, indicating a link farm or redirection strategy. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'memo writing exercises' and a URL that appears to be part of the malicious infrastructure, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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=memo+writing+exercises+with+answers+pdf
    • http://files.mounthorebccl.info/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437711/xuzinizobitopus.pdf
    • http://nogiko.kunzeartgallery.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873995/damuxelujokutelupedu.pdf
    • http://tanoresi.ralfmeisenzahl.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409090/geperureserepo_norefipakul_kebokukax.pdf
    • http://nedigiga.stalbanstpetebeach.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739919/8477579.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4938/5126/files/30755408510.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5482/4598/files/tratados_internacionales_unam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8037/5704/files/understanding_virtue_ethics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7599/3764/files/gobojisusorekikuro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9510/4418/files/23294824081.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6698/1542/files/pubexopajikixerijiwonaba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4392/1820/files/breaking_the_law_tab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/6068/4952/files/upload_to_canva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8115/4198/files/46709480601.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/59022585862.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7441/0901/files/vasis.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_off0000878d.bin
e8900eff04e80a5a3493cc955540f8b92309f34aec7ba168b98d5aefe3239ff7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x878D 5704 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009af1.bin
05b46b2c3ac98c5e3480db38504cff75d18ff74de9e4d7297f8d20603cd3b4a4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9AF1 11228 bytes