Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f794c80e769b1fdb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-08-29 11:31:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cb57defd7b327d9a6c8865c3a0dcb3f6 SHA-1: 7704c3cc83f7da518d09783906eef52fcaba45c3 SHA-256: f794c80e769b1fdb6384a2a0321bd276257ab0fb14fee690e058a36c0d899d7b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service known to host malicious content. The primary heuristic firing indicates a malicious redirector link, and the ML classifier strongly supports this assessment. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking through to potentially harmful 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.cc/wix?keyword=ish+by+peter+reynolds+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8072/1311/files/du_application_form_2019_for_bcom_hons.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2460/5599/files/98979922356.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2135/3639/files/retodojesub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2537/5127/files/statistical_analysis_of_medical_data_using_sas_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3848/1320/files/sibagepawolaseje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1945/2072/files/background_cover_css.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7985/0398/files/integrated_reporting_iirc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7976/8995/files/autism_diagnostic_interview_adi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9154/2681/files/8984461567.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d63e9179ec9c4057915a8716084d9ae0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b30317aaa5564d66978070745cb83036.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/162fe6_5dfc8f44823d4832bcf053579e7a6bc9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_19680482a7be48d08e774584cefef8e6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_03c0f31937d141bfbe664aea726c2791.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_off00006116.bin
ab918fdfa6c4b89a90230eb3407d57ef17a3433edaeafa62cc5fbd7ad5b48032
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6116 5096 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000725b.bin
fb25f16fe097b85321cf9b8c1fbdb0ff6add1b472b56f8dce0f0351467acaf5e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x725B 9832 bytes