Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0552483899508f0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-08-29 12:48:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a7954e978d36ea81696d684d4b83c2bb SHA-1: 402af015f0a056b8d63f4eaf5d8aa3582dd2373a SHA-256: 0552483899508f0b2f0026be91386246710354a62b8fe94d625dacccc7b360f9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure for 'logan online full movie free', which aligns with the malicious redirector's URL. The presence of a large number of PDF links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious 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.com/wix?keyword=logan+online+full+movie+free
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/6553/5638/files/beautiful_in_white_piano_solo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0862/1735/files/62124380019.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3907/2161/files/29576370351.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/67e251_3b152941a08d4597bcf283d981e4d455.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_41dbe2e84a314494ad4f080c7dd49871.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d212302818524642bfde8266adb0cbce.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8029/2254/files/types_of_abnormal_gait_patterns.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/9578/5371/files/bittorrent_utorrent_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9588/3925/files/mozurixilogoxarup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6709/7756/files/55406528149.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_off00006156.bin
89f764484d74816a1ceded43a5fb482876a14527a6dd5e52f46be12f3ca7af1b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6156 4908 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007206.bin
c731e15756f32944f161ed825e4d4008ebfef33ebe5210f6c2b1adbeab0025d2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7206 10488 bytes