Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b3370a2369da1a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-15 03:20:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 774c71fa08a9cab03a5f3c70b1d7e87e SHA-1: fab21ff3c16370d3256e3f281ef8b814bf57e24c SHA-256: 0b3370a2369da1a548d595f669a316e131ba7c6a4dc9f13869bc3207ef96cf49
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL as the malicious redirector, suggesting an attempt to disguise a malicious link within academic-sounding text. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=how+to+report+intraclass+correlation+coefficient+apa
    • http://files.mrsudbury.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453539/422f68238a2d0.pdf
    • http://kuxob.nineteen09gifts.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070487/goxolazonojawirelap.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9314/8313/files/47199347651.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9745/6801/files/75756512652.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6942/3269/files/zedajonurekere.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6594/9862/files/bumunebuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0445/2246/files/domexu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0379/7916/files/41286954172.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3463/9522/files/pabewetujiwodu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1692/0996/files/xagiluxoxotegatolinaledop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3056/9382/files/8888907853.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/0842/9977/files/properties_of_alkyl_halides.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_off000061b2.bin
e6bfb9c9084d1a433636bb9467393291823b984e3b309187d68ab8ce69b16f67
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61B2 5064 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007304.bin
2ee47788dab5fc0c62801d104562573b933e18744c5ced6b7e6b5e0bdc221e29
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7304 10484 bytes