Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07ab3c4a0ea8c8f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-08-28 07:44:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eedf4c71c5f38eb804761d1ca9cdbd60 SHA-1: 25f33a114f64a23bbdfe51e95f36fda2da79d868 SHA-256: 07ab3c4a0ea8c8f817123bc58493dff4f5313c6f5df63b31d99f171336bd66fe
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded URLs that lead to a redirector service, which in turn points to a malicious domain. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for a car review, likely intended to trick the user into clicking the malicious link. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious content.

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=2008+acura+rdx+review
    • http://zakabox.extratimeconcierge.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775565/fc095a32a7.pdf
    • http://files.zaftigs.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813992/kiruvakadogep.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8119/3885/files/22987801032.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3716/9576/files/62245667891.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7044/0095/files/xirukigebozavutuzejavidu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1283/3959/files/durham_court_reporting_whitby.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0660/5987/files/brand_authorization_certificate_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1883/8435/files/2782905928.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3545/0774/files/jivevu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3544/3875/files/how_to_make_a_circle_in_gimp.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30812088679.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9842/3967/files/likovuganevetive.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_off00006bca.bin
efd4346413faf33f47efa435645db83f5c4e15bfe1c83873d755bece36418905
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BCA 5316 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007df1.bin
a0ca5019b038b6a8999a1cff1b783ea89f2e38cac864084f5aebc5d486fa037a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DF1 10776 bytes