Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10cdaba99d92561a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-08-21 11:27:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 42f42f00fdbcc6539c5c85d796c28c15 SHA-1: 0cf6ca9eec7fd97adcb61f4961e0190612cd0f91 SHA-256: 10cdaba99d92561a5401fb127257abab6a958bddc5a2dbe68af2f42ca5bfc8b4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text referencing a "minority report drinking game" and the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm used to distribute the malicious content.

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=minority+report+drinking+game
    • http://files.bigstepmissions.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637021/xagob.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3767/1080/files/57278907687.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2823/3887/files/78006266569.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9658/8967/files/crossfit_bodyweight_workout_plan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8863/2213/files/android_studio_3._4_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0049/5260/files/60284089627.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/3164/5608/files/79044792487.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7096/3350/files/zenanezikezi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2309/6216/files/86805454116.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/66456909559.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/74832969368.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3260/0985/files/pijazaverunuxolonaz.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_off00007936.bin
b2c1ecbf89d7c84e0b9b02854f0d38209cdaa0d32f603f4f50b8146e644614c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7936 5240 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008b05.bin
a4fb149f4b44a0430a266ac955434c9e61353b3734bee98ac2baf217eb07ab8b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B05 10324 bytes