Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c238b8cb4c45eeb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.6 KB Created: 2020-07-28 15:39:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ec615a81cf852e5cfd6c95ba89c04e24 SHA-1: e03b5cb945ba5277c1a6f4fd916a8c1978d2c6e6 SHA-256: 0c238b8cb4c45eeb7a4ff1d64be3002beabd16eacb3e8a490601646f9756eec8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links pointing to a known malicious redirector, which is designed to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to a 'tv guide'. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve SEO for malicious content or to host further stages of an attack. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent.

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/pify?keyword=super+sport+2+tv+guide
    • http://files.wibandshellsandstands.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857679/fe6b0.pdf
    • http://files.karenfeiling.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437531/bejewifut-nowebumakemuxok-roxedirulatu-pubul.pdf
    • http://files.appgeogconf.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409090/3daa1260f.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0935/1575/files/dudusofipimefawaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6750/6849/files/dosugeramozazajuleduzu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/9009713252.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6762/8950/files/jefawiritiwibulete.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6905/4886/files/73689759953.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0106/7166/files/73219039688.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3000/3357/files/mepixozidagedogixo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7243/7913/files/toxijojeja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3573/7755/files/79513267599.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6037/9286/files/legawido.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5458/0391/files/fajakekazekobatemaru.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_off00005319.bin
e0faa914bfbcc3eda4d4223a6e4b1a68986fbe5c64086c3f76da3cba61e31b25
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5319 4956 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006413.bin
0498aa15086e274ec5a756607d44760e93981b4bb276793e494105f5a7161953
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6413 9340 bytes