Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d3ca35a8093cb22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-10 08:37:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: da8aaa4ea015609e77fc506b1afc3c65 SHA-1: f65918832a35fcd8b6eebbe3dffc2ea7315ea483 SHA-256: 0d3ca35a8093cb2296b371e76b9af3c41e36c7c76567012b5ea35b04ca05f6c9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious infrastructure. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic designed to lure users to malicious content. 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=eritema+fijo+toxico+pdf
    • http://gukisuz.annemariewalter.eu/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070792/julizatur.pdf
    • http://files.minjinkim.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740214/7029950.pdf
    • http://files.alexiseclectic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482941/78e0a2f.pdf
    • http://files.penninewalling.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407012/lirelakixojibij.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0381/3781/files/nasumupoje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8565/2375/files/78753558398.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5906/1670/files/kivoluwipixamuleketufu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2556/3799/files/79023286109.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0910/6335/files/61273183393.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0275/7281/files/medibiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8343/9003/files/cercanias_barcelona_horarios.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9833/9496/files/95506689901.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5359/6310/files/jivuwujewekufulononobuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5995/3312/files/76356357841.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3400/8987/files/can_i_get_photoshop_for_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8901/1612/files/murisax.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_off00005f97.bin
eaea385f26ca81a0bd21e077925678cd4389122d5581264a1aeec0a6a64ac2e7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F97 5192 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007139.bin
7f0d6635944b3a02d2d27358a4b6db70fcac4d6df4c399148890e1d3f2398902
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7139 11112 bytes