Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d918e6b43dee4bbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.8 KB Created: 2020-08-29 19:15:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0c3d8dfa22ff05916152e1da9b1eb644 SHA-1: 4f9f97e3b8b261c45aee4b13dc8d495c10566090 SHA-256: d918e6b43dee4bbea37d503c1f582a5acbd49daaf554fe7c76135b27c40ccead
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and contains a significant number of embedded links, many pointing to external PDF files. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector. This suggests a tactic to artificially inflate search engine rankings or to funnel users towards malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

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/wix?keyword=netter+atlas+de+anatom%25C3%25ADa+humana+7.%25C2%25BA
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5f31b2a80a054df8908eca6fa25b7a16.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1fdf14fbccdf47169eb3b1d1f1c95a63.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_da74cf5d45ab41b8ba8732aa2e56ac45.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_278e3a57eae84c0eab8999e0be6f1c5e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f4bc4cbd660640e69b3ca07eab886e1b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_41d13a3249a24646b06d8eedd46bd597.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cf79db_9c478883e008438ca8e2818f4b3af186.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9816/7709/files/network_marketing_android_games.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8465/1423/files/mijizemojafavevoxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7500/0730/files/chlamydia_adalah.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5496/4637/files/51624252047.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1ec9cfcc516241eb91aaee5f9f0ea4fd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/89064d_4a5be05c036046eb807d332d5bc4b40f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f09ee20ddcb847f99ea77f51b776e095.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_off00004ecb.bin
3a2dcea5f1fcf4374d0c119a1d0d8f1376afd99486c0a29592a2089c7a8cbec7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4ECB 5312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000060bd.bin
2a298f5095501d90e6cc57ba353b888579da179a32be3e9935f7d69e972e1d3a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60BD 11012 bytes