Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 087efa7470cfe14f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-30 04:04:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f67e6452b342bfe83e10d821ec440dd8 SHA-1: fc234304ec8c928c7932dbc032d02ce0053091d0 SHA-256: 087efa7470cfe14f245781c4a198c017d8835fe3e356df195339b2e7b2ec4eb2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links and text that direct users to a malicious redirector URL. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent, and the presence of numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URL is the primary indicator of compromise.

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.cc/wix?keyword=letter+of+recommendation+template+for+mba+student
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1077/6478/files/physical_science_grade_11_study_guides.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7259/3832/files/my_cg_song._com.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9195/1769/files/mifito.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8877/1227/files/jetemonupikovune.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4337/9617/files/85628528494.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8667/5108/files/17804354291.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4228/3432/files/8476575964.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7433/8454/files/ignou_b._ed_entrance_exam_2019_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9243/5359/files/self_defense_techniques_pressure_points.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2962/6017/files/61749468306.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6172/2788/files/ansys_hfss.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9cc572_c2f0c58e828c419cad5ff6b984d9988f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c20ea7_8a90d7e18a5e41868de4e56507bd9063.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cf79db_22769a7053654dd4a8e2f9cd326cef97.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_off000067f0.bin
3408b0c65a944cbbfbe42c86f2eabda0ac385b0e6ee2f6d2d1bfebab7ace12f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67F0 5384 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a18.bin
988084c96ca86f4c1b7e42a293df08f27126575f09c5463170e652a00ea8ea74
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A18 9824 bytes