Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 045011ed051f0349…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-24 00:25:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 71648e493e9243943b8ac82fad6197e1 SHA-1: 30f682ba0132092218af6274b77277b7587bff8b SHA-256: 045011ed051f0349a761f50fc90fd0a52420c29c78b495778d4505b4ff0857f4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying one as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the malicious redirector. The presence of a large number of links, many pointing to Shopify, suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or create a link farm, with the primary malicious link being the entry point to further malicious activity.

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.com/pify?keyword=whirlpool+oven+accubake+system+self+cleaning+manual
    • http://files.lussotailors.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738924/7008973.pdf
    • http://files.charityscienceoutreach.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969830/5fb80364b0.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0638/6595/files/listening_comprehension_worksheets_grade_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3708/2271/files/hosts_windows_10.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0632/8995/files/62438518419.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5802/8959/files/33664777671.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6914/5241/files/72201789045.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9764/4444/files/developing_action_research_design.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5187/5494/files/16768376551.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2064/7576/files/download_concise_oxford_dictionary_of_english_etymology.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8238/9406/files/dubufewegemagilivixepel.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_off00006544.bin
6c0a6f5925abe8adc819d334fa244dcfde6905ccb8931b8c54016ef4dbbac918
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6544 5688 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000787d.bin
298aeb04bd2648476e141a196d1afca64ad2ec99b560a2454905b22086b3628c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x787D 9776 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000099f5.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99F5 4324 bytes