Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 155985f7db45c66b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-15 03:43:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bbd66ff28d9b6fc125c35fca718d4e81 SHA-1: 9e41116d15cae53f20c998e75b5cf690f19e93c0 SHA-256: 155985f7db45c66b0ac45c6ebb476ae8c3e5dd4c6dee11282fdd3df056054459
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that is also present in the malicious link, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious content as a datasheet. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=cmos+4069+datasheet+pdf
    • http://files.fairygrasshopper.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741110/7d541fc.pdf
    • http://files.littlehandsandfeetdoula.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740234/6acf9c.pdf
    • http://mawujute.misplacedchef.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/kifef.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3350/9535/files/ataullah_shah_bukhari_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6873/3078/files/zozawipelajofuponefa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1371/5606/files/41632364394.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7013/6220/files/fram_oil_filter_catalog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6807/1836/files/netflix_series_sites.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0580/4698/files/78266340455.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/titigabibuzumazavuxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1610/1793/files/8875916685.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7542/6722/files/78378289456.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3727/5813/files/55523592454.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_off000050c2.bin
0e98be67eba76635c4b8fe859c6685a7f8be9ebe5c5fe1cf367e745f4f5b5c2f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50C2 4068 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005f3a.bin
96618bd742302308a64a822f1478f920b6b0df7699049c2048f214bf9b06d15f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F3A 5600 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000722a.bin
bb465f1a0293ad03b069cec9810bcca07e5dad6f2c1cb7ddc2c43b788ba07e5b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x722A 10540 bytes