Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 028dabeb2b14618a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.9 KB Created: 2020-08-22 00:11:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4e186a891831428bde3779328ef07c86 SHA-1: 079d40a16fced8051426c7ce4168a6faa0826379 SHA-256: 028dabeb2b14618a20eae2a857914dc7e55f65ad90f929850474703e07cc23c7
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL for the malicious redirector and several other PDF URLs, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=javascript+array+slice+performance
    • http://jolusibam.rivercitygivers.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874388/b3ea954e2.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5349/8019/files/31586376432.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9270/4408/files/gegezutukasufub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8329/1029/files/spiritual_benefits_of_fasting.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8611/7019/files/19712064381.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2135/2606/files/bavodejodov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2371/9845/files/lediwipamovavixaxej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1358/7623/files/godufupazudekusujoraromu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8910/0957/files/tafakitozege.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6974/1983/files/pexesiliromib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8627/4977/files/meaning_of_annual_general_meeting.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000074df.bin
0b5b379452066def725f40e43f9527d4c056f66e7c175b64a6e2868c81b1bc13
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74DF 5100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008623.bin
8673fd7193a4ede939fefc9b23375285305943ed1600590ea1020bf076214424
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8623 10120 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a8ce.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA8CE 4324 bytes