Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0dece39e3aa4a4e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.4 KB Created: 2020-08-08 00:54:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eb9eadcd7bed8034da8aa547384edcbd SHA-1: d1947d1e3ba75cb21983139ffd3695c15d83f27a SHA-256: 0dece39e3aa4a4e65ea3062b30daec1dfb5640bf6f2639996d868ba213b41192
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text that appears to be a lure for a PDF download, further supported by the presence of many Shopify-hosted PDF links. The primary IOC is the malicious redirector URL, which likely leads to a further stage of the attack.

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=biometry+4th+edition+pdf
    • http://rijinido.morethansoulfood.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070786/zisowabopusanezer.pdf
    • http://files.bareraydiance.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740533/4a3f5348eff1f7e.pdf
    • http://files.reikiwomb.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738531/ditilo-wifozo-zelez.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/6973/0979/files/astrobiology_magazine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9289/2053/files/gawasewopopakasezizedotad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/botudurodakokebavexosox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1796/9570/files/2182172946.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6422/2101/files/kebib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6421/4175/files/biography_poem_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2720/2205/files/small_convert_to_ppt.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2625/9876/files/69534507548.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2704/6301/files/56759529853.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4266/7676/files/bajovalubim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3564/0487/files/abbottabad_commission_report_pdf_download.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_off000045a8.bin
6605d766e63d22911897eb3ac0afee502f236360f4d7fa88ce6bdbd34f0473d5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x45A8 5100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000056e8.bin
0a5fa6df31920d8572a57336de84b2ff0642f3bbc3e5f07d5569596115fb2ff8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x56E8 10004 bytes