Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 009efe8855b1b270…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-24 13:03:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9843c752ff2d9b7bda45d01de31d27e8 SHA-1: 6f7f3dc29ac3730128e6344e4487b7716a3b480e SHA-256: 009efe8855b1b270d5fc67b20075bfc3841c65056f2da665f2aa9410d14c8c1f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious URL, likely as part of a phishing or scam campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and appears to be a lure related to a 'manual'. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to obscure the malicious redirector.

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/pify?keyword=ceriatone+ots+mini+manual
    • http://raxabuder.nyacklibrary.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969915/8432518.pdf
    • http://pevek.pawsadventurewalkingservice.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/9321602.pdf
    • http://files.thenecsl.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437725/xojax_jukubefatukoj.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4410/8453/files/ashford_oaks_primary_school_uniform.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7356/7901/files/8163194411.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9938/2170/files/one_way_jesus_lyrics_and_chords.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/2570/3583/files/aeriforme_in_inglese.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9301/5190/files/vijimixulunowixovame.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4048/0164/files/99083489471.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7988/3170/files/13520332919.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8324/2401/files/kesekefaposisokaweziji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1539/5738/files/magic_fhoto_editor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vaxopegi.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000726c.bin
653ac9e268af8040bb2950f05474f2debbe79cacf9034a0ed4ecad789381a03e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x726C 4736 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008261.bin
2bbef3d1773c92d50b30254ec8ecc8b1329a77bc1f29933db8525c993994b50e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8261 10128 bytes