Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1034f48a56034fbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-20 07:55:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f3c7bd3e4d7f77d1b0c77c4dd8bdcc67 SHA-1: 1f5d02ec0b5aaa013ab41b330f2ef9fb54cb4829 SHA-256: 1034f48a56034fbc1ecbf08ca59c933492c241c9f59e32d220c7e4b831327019
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs but one critical link to a known malicious redirector. The heuristic firings indicate this is a malicious redirector and a link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search results or distribute malware. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict. No scripts were extracted, but the document body and embedded URLs are sufficient to infer a 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.ru/pify?keyword=base+de+datos+tecnologia+de+informacion
    • http://files.selinachustudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383456/3489638.pdf
    • http://bonoti.sooversociety.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740892/52eff9cddd.pdf
    • http://pigowob.aldersgatecenter.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775407/demababijasojali.pdf
    • http://files.rotaryseymour.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637631/7370516.pdf
    • http://files.catmintcottagestreetcatrescue.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437172/2360728.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/2878/7879/files/low_back_stretches_spanish.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3825/0910/files/objectives_of_entrepreneurship_education.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7438/8119/files/jozivupumuzabupiporepuka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1851/8681/files/desukad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7548/4313/files/xuvozibu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0458/9643/3818/files/suzedusijotesamadutej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8708/5220/files/fevosupixesare.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0051/8040/files/92280417821.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_off00006496.bin
303d50857f71beebbaf30b217580b19648644e3b156cbd3f723ec439effcf691
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6496 5388 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000076ce.bin
0d794743e17752dfd66b1c818f6ce8210211af015ecd4771a49e434cf8614340
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76CE 10944 bytes