Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09cfac88a034db21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-08-22 12:32:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8c425de0dba6c44ced64867eb4073cbc SHA-1: a774049a5cd83575f3753fb948cf29bf54b98e77 SHA-256: 09cfac88a034db21bdc314f8afac7de9e65e1c6d1cbe1f1c22faf06ccfd2803f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to a high ML score and the presence of a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. It also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify, which is indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The document body contains garbled text but also includes the malicious URL and several benign-looking Shopify URLs.

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=saucony+hurricane+vs+guide+iso
    • http://files.annarescuesquad.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383864/3780878.pdf
    • http://najabivov.preciousinvestltd.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070197/ravuwe.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9818/6652/files/funny_fat_girl_pictures.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6320/4253/files/8496465045.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/0964/7263/files/codycross_answers_group_218.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8940/3810/files/cardano_s_method_example.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2549/6221/files/gelarofinufad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pizegavegip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7257/0012/files/big_o_exercises.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0461/5066/files/71487636653.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2878/0955/files/blockchain_in_food_supply_chain.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6026/5117/files/50799298302.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3402/3848/files/yamaha_emx512sc_powered_mixer_owner_s_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0463/2992/files/walapakajemotepilekolipo.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_off00005fe7.bin
580a171ee52ac2641781658b066544961661f1dadcccd78571f701dfcaf573c3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FE7 5432 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007255.bin
d453d1628a377c5c5c8f9c1b621cc1b2a2f581d2aba5ee6f186396da8ea45f51
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7255 9792 bytes