Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0194be7080720d55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.3 KB Created: 2020-08-24 03:51:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9c0b989882b1c3bb1f4783426bc26f5d SHA-1: 38da586dba52fc0ef7a2aa831c66b62a902a0b2f SHA-256: 0194be7080720d55404479df77e34f3c38a435e9eaefa40b78bc8e477c2604ca
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link that redirects to malicious infrastructure, disguised as "Cyber discovery answers 2019 challenge 5". The document also functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous other PDF files hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination of the primary link.

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=cyber+discovery+answers+2019+challenge+5
    • http://files.indusvastra.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712251/kaneb.pdf
    • http://files.maricasts.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775704/terizatujanumegov.pdf
    • http://fevirodi.workinnvision.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813528/runipimol-muzegi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5698/8311/files/secured_loan_agreement_template_uk_word.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2790/7239/files/28761569568.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7678/6078/files/74101908957.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6052/6246/files/onimusha_trick_box.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3797/4950/files/fezubupisalowuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3495/8229/files/aurora_borealis_app_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6134/6466/files/34497366886.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3366/4420/files/junenaxarokekaginizotigum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0458/6428/8409/files/23459409469.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5507/7790/files/32119011076.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0786/8060/files/vukadozezurixosef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4114/4483/files/71041684869.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_off00008dee.bin
90659052305a8c28297538dbf9e1457e34a200035b745d855de6b86f43aa254c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DEE 6108 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a2cd.bin
afa6eddee6db178709db4ccf91487f86c314cdeb11a911ed80ab41d47fe4e190
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA2CD 11120 bytes