Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02f3514a6ed681d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.3 KB Created: 2020-08-28 09:13:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d718ed5074e7870a62a70698589b60f2 SHA-1: e7d2500e690dd93928791536db78b29181fb7d16 SHA-256: 02f3514a6ed681d0e1c94269524726e527319cf6e4582130c66222db63af685a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic designed to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated 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.me/pify?keyword=agar+sal+y+manitol
    • http://konog.thestringbean.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164239/f8d8cc6.pdf
    • http://files.photogenicbaby.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969986/8527345.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4504/4892/files/four_hour_work_week.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5901/2006/files/merge_tiff_to.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1352/0029/files/65863512187.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0775/3888/files/rajoniretazisudak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3248/6823/files/2367942113.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3314/0127/files/flame_emission_and_atomic_absorption_spectroscopy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4151/3894/files/55675279719.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6831/6055/files/wojexi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4582/1338/files/bicycle_suspension_design.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3787/6639/files/2_forms_of_identification_employment.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3550/7358/files/24637472987.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1407/9143/files/safivutuxubiwivox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1823/1709/files/62097191168.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_off00004b15.bin
4879d9a4ee0f1e3a2ec423fe6b7cab9d0bcd090febae936bcc59ff06bd3d634c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B15 5096 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005c5c.bin
06d4c43ac3ceced55b0314943e92abd1060ca95fe6ed895c10d33308cbdfd9e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C5C 10640 bytes