Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bdb8ca3ae1773d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-10 05:16:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1ed42d15f20e25490daf1289491d0868 SHA-1: ed57afd0e00cac21053fafb8a710719c437ee9f7 SHA-256: 0bdb8ca3ae1773d1609f0a6b9066ced2457ea0c1f121edde3ef50d52edea9e96
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to benign Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body and metadata suggest a lure related to "brain drain solutions" and the use of wkhtmltopdf, indicating an attempt to disguise malicious content. The presence of a malicious redirector strongly suggests the intent to lead the user to a malicious site for further exploitation.

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=brain+drain+solutions+pdf
    • http://files.immaculataschool.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813988/76ab218c2.pdf
    • http://files.defy-foundation.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438013/feb5acc.pdf
    • http://files.thisismayfield.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776861/xebenov.pdf
    • http://files.designsiteswithseo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406607/1782384.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0645/1094/files/rukemobewot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8713/2827/files/python_udp_server.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0455/8488/files/sims_4_no_mosaic_mod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3723/7146/files/the_animator_s_survival_kit_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6175/4518/files/pool_table_new_rules.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9208/6685/files/eighteenth_brumaire_of_louis_bonaparte.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6014/3014/files/7444287358.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7637/1110/files/94859095832.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7017/6928/files/ditexexasivawivona.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3706/3328/files/fenupusomimoxabefizulof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3249/4751/files/delete_all_favorites_on_twitter.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_off000063f1.bin
a909bf2388e6b1135d56d43203b61612021f986e2eebbd185521b17f062c356a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63F1 5084 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000754b.bin
fc3b6cce800a5afb72c20c5bd17167a161cbfc6d6c4f5047d97c3d006b091420
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x754B 9876 bytes