Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f1a14795472edc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.2 KB Created: 2020-08-05 14:01:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bf2f0232c2f03ed8775593e83fa61177 SHA-1: 46ce941f470a1a66e5916f809d29a22dabb7fccb SHA-256: 0f1a14795472edc1d8f0aa770f5c2a1ba4c72b8d30510ba49996d5e6c4401eb8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for "Marriott brand standards pdf". The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. 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.cc/pify?keyword=marriott+brand+standards+pdf
    • http://files.wholesaleabundancesoaps.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856205/7563649.pdf
    • http://files.myelegantmarriage.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606819/lijukudamina.pdf
    • http://ximirelil.jacquevilmainmusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384429/puvoxogagiso_vilube.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5352/9753/files/39048597844.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1425/7815/files/87682361614.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9387/7145/files/cours_anglais_technique.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3777/5256/files/powosujepoze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3092/1895/files/70184856683.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vozazugimutiwobawaxuleg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0745/1042/files/13208658218.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7179/0486/files/tamifupipulazojexum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7547/7405/files/7880948776.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2287/5797/files/dedovunow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3272/1046/files/semenemudejogo.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_off00005276.bin
33f4441da5d6563d8667ee20e3e745fdf0e207803088dfffad3c18276166c59e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5276 5148 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000640a.bin
7b4797c31bd43bd78b7703d9f40574b93b140ac99d4db16aaa9635c6f8f79f65
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x640A 10524 bytes