Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 226083af52b17ad8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-30 17:53:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c67907261d3ca595679898cb1c101632 SHA-1: 27bd2d0c936f5c39330086e9889dfc69d0d50da6 SHA-256: 226083af52b17ad85de506a8a5982450b77f6cea0485d65255e17671ab205eba
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to a further stage of the attack. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and other Shopify links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to lure victims.

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.com/wix?keyword=romeu+e+julieta+william+shakespeare+sinopse
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2793/0011/files/5560775753.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7726/1729/files/la_peste_albert_camus_espaol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9262/2998/files/40975758429.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6411/2805/files/kisikulazufimi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6020/8540/files/anime_wallpaper_for_pc_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0484/4442/files/past_and_present_tense_practice_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8135/0820/files/casio_fx_991ms_user_manual.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_52f724d306f34683814db955ffc1b32c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/30e015_50f4e8a5dd1c45b1808a0dc33196e126.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kovutuku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4777/8469/files/82048279575.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7176/6690/files/82005319364.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8316/2019/files/tiregisasu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6223/1201/files/chico_craiglist_org.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_off0000664f.bin
37b9c768416ca6570b0188feb4f88dcab6b9dcac481b40d8f266c87d349d2933
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x664F 5300 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007843.bin
65e15011f3d9d7b98736fc3a0c00849b346087c1ac8de067c4d687f7c3163010
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7843 10068 bytes