Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0661bed9bce7be85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-22 01:49:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 64dc82d3c3c832f5cfd4c73893226b41 SHA-1: beea1540fedc9084013f22a926c41892d304d097 SHA-256: 0661bed9bce7be850e2a75cc0953473f8fe004edad252e647c46cfb4661dc4e2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise its true nature. 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.com/pify?keyword=us+federal+reserve+balance+sheet+unwind
    • http://files.newindanderyd.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681343/bidesowezoparof.pdf
    • http://files.mandalaband.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857782/samalus.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2282/8198/files/butog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7606/7228/files/autocad_2013_keygen_x-_force.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1760/7067/files/bididanisaparelavog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7258/5888/files/pirates_of_the_caribbean_music_score.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4885/files/29804539521.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4415/0165/files/52120541836.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0288/8351/files/anemia_aplasica_en_nios.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8051/5745/files/danibudiboxewekixoguvipim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2434/3462/files/vupikuxarotisibi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4338/0631/files/m_board_4chan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1648/6040/files/bolagojarovefetagufime.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_off00006040.bin
0d9673dbbd0d895e9e87dd3b0c3f3ffc0a3c97ff9aba79b97a3fc6e7eab92429
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6040 5392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072a0.bin
3e22ec6266d84ebfd675cdc4b08350989ee9e9ec311aae4fe3a1f7fcb01eac35
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72A0 10408 bytes