Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19981d0283074b39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.2 KB Created: 2020-08-07 01:23:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4829ddaf265be6f5c7abebe5b7e92e90 SHA-1: 551f8fee061ff4b12d3349e11149c7b026867aa7 SHA-256: 19981d0283074b39fe604059a1fe2018ba67c1827a796014bfe64d067a8fbaa9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. This suggests a tactic to manipulate search engine results or to distribute malicious content disguised as academic papers. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=elementary+intermediate+algebra+bittinger+pdf
    • http://files.thewovensnail.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682042/447de89.pdf
    • http://files.katshelter.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739490/talumixemuxawe-fizetisujuvalap.pdf
    • http://files.allinclusivetennis.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131608037/kinepumifuwekeladuva.pdf
    • http://files.escambialatin.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695392/senilix-botuxixigup.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3794/0117/files/77629525948.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7296/2203/files/guganewixejeridupan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3774/4534/files/66986835171.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7344/5792/files/kosakadaxulukapanupan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7777/1164/files/teruxolikepexo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7817/3343/files/tinogofudokemawikos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/marifurozijuzaledenikegi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8809/9993/files/33298520568.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5167/0943/files/dilemipovifibevuvilotize.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3858/8584/files/potitejuvuluvupedunudegus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6649/1041/files/welding_risk_assessment.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1510/9797/files/how_to_save_an_imovie.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_off00005610.bin
96be83fe6e4d60af2cfca20ff1d03c2eef2d9f59d9db15493cb2436b6df9b6b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5610 5384 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006851.bin
a093f7b92963dfd0f4c354ecd9a5ece2ee89abb7325898d44483205e35c92312
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6851 9856 bytes