Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ea00e10f8026aa3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-19 14:15:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4c0c83275609bda5aa3e7a3677775fdb SHA-1: f05c25e8340296db28e6293a11125e6d0f2df5ca SHA-256: 0ea00e10f8026aa3097d5a4093ad086d0e18cd4bd6842f606158c4049c9c0e49
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 of which point to benign Shopify URLs, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded links are the primary vector for malicious activity.

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=puffin+browser+free++for+windows+10
    • http://mefip.mcleanwomansclub.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606027/liberamewuwexib.pdf
    • http://gudos.gabrielphotography.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695478/9317585.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3831/7464/files/addition_worksheets_3rd_grade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2613/6743/files/39634941416.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1978/6645/files/90672699354.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2756/9576/files/sullivan_algebra_and_trig_9th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4989/3531/files/50446039488.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5419/3057/files/pdf_marasmus_kwashiorkor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1459/4464/files/deep_learning_a_critical_appraisal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/3517/6608/files/to_be_past_simple_test.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_off00006139.bin
4ee29b2769728ddad3dbe8eeb6d429699a6ceb741b32aef0d4f7808906a4f30b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6139 5088 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072a7.bin
ed4be2e01f4bb9d8dc243b293caa34f08c4cc130eb1b640cacc905b8b5374c8b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72A7 10360 bytes