Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0967af33f27cc5a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.8 KB Created: 2020-07-26 06:17:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 02fa7122524a1ffd01167221fd903a18 SHA-1: de05788fe8d1a3e6fb7efb571e6c0a3ea0726c32 SHA-256: 0967af33f27cc5a40327789bc8491339ed22de81e4ef5bb2a7383a1a91c04f77
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links, with one prominently leading to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a topic related to indoor air pollution, likely a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or traffic.

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=effects+of+indoor+air+pollution+pdf
    • http://files.hartmanreserve.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739789/mexon.pdf
    • http://files.anewreligion.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775366/fodidexamixofesoku.pdf
    • http://files.ollieboormandrumacademy.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131412290/waregosesugodev_zijinakip_nitedezedonu_vefagijosede.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/61051106257.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8628/0872/files/tomonaxegopa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1319/2349/files/35779784020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9930/8711/files/zugisolikimala.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7878/6965/files/simagofejokerobevuvugan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4291/2926/files/2080433496.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6781/0726/files/54506731121.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7696/0924/files/bawejidi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9105/0137/files/lajakopet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7744/3483/files/lunelanutogapi.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_off00007dc3.bin
7fdd571bc06752528405e5f31cba56af60a88b11e9115cc2896f7ea8c77ba97b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DC3 4988 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008ec0.bin
a08ee854d70c5fd2c7404e39ec74d5ede3e0a88d4f99e4971a931d99248b8ad7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8EC0 10400 bytes