Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12b641be1f2d33f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-27 22:21:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9e59d35af659f7ec319779f3335b3a25 SHA-1: fbf86c3df9dd4daa5a5a7d2fae0190298a7e7a00 SHA-256: 12b641be1f2d33f3378216265ba280a6d76fc023c0489d9e3a5ee27bcabe2525
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically a URL related to a song title. The document body also contains this URL and numerous other links, many of which are to benign Shopify domains but some are to unknown domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection tactic. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the redirector link indicate a likely phishing or scam attempt to lead the user to 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.link/pify?keyword=missy+elliott+supa+dupa+fly+torrent
    • http://files.virgomaria.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813846/aebdb9b6.pdf
    • http://rizadu.pupafranca.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380005/0700990.pdf
    • http://files.copartnershipforthrivingfamilies.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739747/7261597.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6539/0757/files/centripetal_force_exploring_uniform_circular_motion_lab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9096/8729/files/compagnie_financire_richemont_sa_annual_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5022/8119/files/64652276684.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5713/3221/files/glycosylated_haemoglobin_formation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9567/8357/files/pobigolusolomifumegipon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1925/5456/files/zebetozixi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4380/5594/files/xivisazalebamuxezexilen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6129/4757/files/rudumitukifapimaxob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5626/5376/files/98475348930.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_off00007191.bin
a30659698a5cf7c129e1138e320267eca809da73bad0fc0717483bc1524f99e2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7191 5144 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000832c.bin
cd4411092077ffc71b59087d520420b14f5d8ea5380db4936a3f84df308f2667
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x832C 10520 bytes