Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfce4cedfacb7015…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.3 KB Created: 2020-08-19 01:52:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 217c1a68b49d543d686482f225184896 SHA-1: 8481339d54f5c39f0605b9053a99ceb1112b3810 SHA-256: dfce4cedfacb7015341986ad9510390f4bd5bc814e4f5eb8915819096123980a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL. The presence of a large link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious links broadly. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=eduardo+costa+pronto+falei
    • http://guponenu.thehudsonsheafoundation.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163635/sigekazusele.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2702/1480/files/74841838216.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5091/0364/files/meters_to_inches_conversion_table.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0449/2957/files/articulos_cientificos_recientes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9898/8954/files/susevoxixekukenepi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5930/5880/files/litupowufanikibunula.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5179/5107/files/ben_10_omniverse_game_ppsspp_gold.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0209/9873/files/pedip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2767/7852/files/47133614365.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/d3_pin_node_double_click.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6896/2469/files/7393518700.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1440/5793/files/3809052964.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_off00004d57.bin
5bf593de54eef26ac4548d7423b3c798fe1c21bca4b882c437368fc8965b9614
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D57 5108 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005ec8.bin
f8901df7b2776faba4dd6cc8b86c598e60eea5588a0395fcf936c174dabe27eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EC8 11660 bytes