Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 037472b105327ea1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-16 12:49:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a995a11231ef5debe32fa131e3ac7660 SHA-1: 82517de3754a6554364b135c61c8a101620a0204 SHA-256: 037472b105327ea1a8a9f346c6f1e4635f7f60f8476453e7ec0523cc3afe5199
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign designed to drive traffic to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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/wb?keyword=modulators%20and%20demodulators%20pdf
    • http://files.martialhartamas.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814279/6186ec0be38b.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7899/1520/files/tonakigiwafidupogagimod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6990/6854/files/ralariwamujela.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1520/9123/files/prayer_beads_sekiro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/19194700937.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6730/2303/files/august_month_current_affairs_2020_gradeup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/62856854762.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7139/6257/files/barodezodeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6240/2967/files/97589489137.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9714/6019/files/sokema.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8481/5259/files/boruzexidelidapekavo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7344/5792/files/wenowizexijebisoxuke.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_off00005711.bin
5ab65e7aae9288cf4abbeea0a7e9924ff516b4a015bb9dc2d6b96007a0a1c6c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5711 5192 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000068aa.bin
455f3bbb2a666d547d4766026005fde749a9910a1bb79c834f1d2c37433dab30
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68AA 15200 bytes