Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1397bb0578f78fc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-19 15:42:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a5eec840850890a12f76f4452909a7e5 SHA-1: a2b5529db4f06d5449dfc97296880c509b1e2ae0 SHA-256: 1397bb0578f78fc14b4b538312131c31c7e541d209911833c134c5c073e029e4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDFs hosted on Shopify. One of the primary links, however, directs to a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign designed to drive traffic to malicious sites. 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.ru/pify?keyword=bahubali+movie+video++mp4
    • http://files.indulge1461.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739023/riroriluwunuko.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0844/2020/files/43776869781.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4244/6229/files/16036606974.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3461/5706/files/kigonodes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9161/6153/files/dinareweto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4991/7347/files/wow_pvp_rankings.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5812/6245/files/acrobat_writer_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0377/1041/files/rimogezo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9753/9231/files/33357592005.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2121/9493/files/14604347156.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6856/4380/files/potolemojobotugikoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/6235/8179/files/biblia_catolica_descargar.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000051f4.bin
84f6545259847eac00fe5d14bf0bea2b887f63badb87ff3312bf0f9a844d3668
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x51F4 4960 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000062d2.bin
31e335684096383325e996922c2fe50ebed9b8d3ff59ceedaa2365e85e2ff46a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62D2 9872 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000084a7.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84A7 4324 bytes