Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 067915894c757c0e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.5 KB Created: 2020-09-03 01:53:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3173dd5a6c9337051d0f6a54665febc8 SHA-1: 089c33ab5aabb2d13bd4a5bd90a157d66c0916df SHA-256: 067915894c757c0e6da0a9b1855d1e61ea693e71c789e13348fa88fb0c4bf4ae
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily garbled, contains text suggesting it is a lure for an 'appointment letter format'. The presence of numerous links to Shopify PDFs, some flagged as benign, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to mask the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

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.ru/pify?keyword=appointment+letter+format+word+sales+manager
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8960/0414/files/joponosimupeborijaguso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1652/7770/files/77569381217.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7347/8560/files/29808515371.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2883/9581/files/daikin_ceiling_ac_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6296/8991/files/rixizepelokomutinugatuwot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8032/7076/files/32747930294.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5734/7741/files/9013258693.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2846/2240/files/camera_raw_photoshop_cc_2015.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/3313/2955/files/98098075300.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4207/7846/files/does_android_9_have_dark_mode.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9660/2779/files/super_smash_bros_brawl_ntsc-j_iso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4747/7667/files/12055833008.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_off00005c66.bin
1fe31ef50b11b394309f0e8f04271a3844e186eb4f1a4ab8226228cf98e74ed4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C66 5444 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006ee9.bin
1d308713381c2bb36e27b16cd48848445a57b68df112ceba740ad56198f9ae12
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EE9 10012 bytes