Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d49ff0f2f8e6c5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-21 17:24:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 207937d6002ad38d7b2fb32e7b8713cc SHA-1: 34a0bea3fb5054ce332513ee6f7a6eca9f344f49 SHA-256: 1d49ff0f2f8e6c5f962e919e5533af62ba74099f909d925eb8d4c84f95e1c65b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link farm designed to appear as legitimate guides, but the primary link redirects to known malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and references to other PDFs hosted on Shopify, likely to lend legitimacy to the lure.

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=climbing+rose+planting+guide
    • http://files.alanbirtwistle.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383664/werox_xapedewero_bemidituziv_zurer.pdf
    • http://xoxupex.ndeauction.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637814/5430570.pdf
    • http://files.mangoconstruction.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437984/4441414.pdf
    • http://files.fearlessgift.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872107/4069010.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5131/0488/files/1549411192.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7689/5398/files/tegan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1445/3410/files/38174551668.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6225/5013/files/murabamevotudupazegofo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6896/2469/files/mattress_dimension_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/3986/3463/files/boiler_feed_water_treatment.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8525/0216/files/maplestory_flames_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7567/4024/files/sejuxamudibumanulexupep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/86556218032.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006551.bin
ea413eb9e6903e13d29d9d6f24d36bb8c9a86c7b7601f5bc9d2782dd4355c894
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6551 5324 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000773b.bin
e4ca4744c093915108d15db49536e6be1256a53636a69ea4c0626d32ab107970
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x773B 10308 bytes