Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cefee2f2e09d2c79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-08-05 11:19:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f75229214263a04e1d6927d9a508e96d SHA-1: eb8e406224c061e613490a96605ceef69fc86b77 SHA-256: cefee2f2e09d2c79507e0ad348a4964ef5113039ff8e5dfdba39b9260edbf680
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are part of a large link farm, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the primary goal is to lure users to malicious 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.com/pify?keyword=bending+moment+experiment+pdf
    • http://files.northislandpag.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739564/gumorazozudatit.pdf
    • http://files.sledgedistillery.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437308/3109330.pdf
    • http://files.bctiltup.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379928/gijuvebos.pdf
    • http://files.girlpushespaint.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380094/7701621.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7649/9096/files/legend_of_zelda_minish_cap_rom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1056/3994/files/raxulikobej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8249/7701/files/35156857740.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1708/4839/files/31806469028.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0587/8167/files/jitulegoduvepodudodavat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3070/8385/files/jubilewenogesuvagusew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/51686393220.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0490/3073/files/54871688713.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9141/8518/files/60415061902.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7309/3288/files/61490946710.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4301/0213/files/jose_peppers_menu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1870/6341/files/18768598258.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5082/6905/files/jspdf_plugin_autotable.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_off00005be9.bin
d7876ca27958b21b023a0eba37e2b6f0e969266e7516f1117e85fc8feb89327f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BE9 5056 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d16.bin
797cc494fdd9b3e6f92811edb79d529706441b3ad931db7177c071f9a0f5bc09
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D16 13828 bytes