Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14c246c276ffd37f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2020-08-04 02:23:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eb34477028dbe60e150865b4c7c94083 SHA-1: 088816c327e2397ea658dd6ef8491501d0fb9558 SHA-256: 14c246c276ffd37f27c5f6c0c768ad28db35449ee37e2a9cc7b109fe75df561f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to benign Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of 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.cc/pify?keyword=amitriptyline+hydrochloride+davis+pdf
    • http://files.florablackett.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438449/f8482.pdf
    • http://files.lindsayreidart.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874520/6563283608a119f.pdf
    • http://files.cantonohiolandscaping.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453651/453c43f3.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5843/8039/files/digital_computer_electronics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5743/7080/files/12278663898.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8847/8365/files/20560236241.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4652/6361/files/mubikaragor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4321/6789/files/bufazumobuxubagetofijad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0762/2824/files/4454075106.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3300/2145/files/84435511077.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0699/9203/files/ampicillin_adalah.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7320/7446/files/56742242867.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7926/2615/files/potumigewovivesative.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_off0000d427.bin
2b8091598d6e4db596315bed88c5ec251eb97bf503e28175655167bc73152373
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD427 5548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6e6.bin
b601f4f8640d2552661473ae18cb5d3763815804dc9ef86716230c638a9d6074
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E6 10816 bytes