Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 269ea527f16fced9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.4 KB Created: 2020-08-08 07:17:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a12f25cfbc090b6e557d64713b4fbd3f SHA-1: 7078f2c16150ffb830f84e1eb7743e42d04efe39 SHA-256: 269ea527f16fced9108e7e0c3661edd58f457b894320ff7b22a6ec4fb6b971f6
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a precalculus textbook, aiming to lure users to a malicious site. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify, likely as part of an SEO link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=precalculus+textbook+pdf+larson
    • http://files.catherinevanheest.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856331/1889891.pdf
    • http://files.foodbiomedicalscience.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873983/8862416.pdf
    • http://files.sellingmomma.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814586/besozinib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9103/3250/files/81303215466.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7981/8661/files/gisunirituminozu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5276/0224/files/23521727897.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5429/3402/files/lugimovemalu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0587/8170/files/book_cake_design.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5584/0409/files/grow_rpg_walkthru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/1549/9939/files/environmental_and_material_flow_cost_accounting_principles_and_procedures.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3030/5178/files/pemimununaruxadelopet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4109/4817/files/juveguwabili.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7700/8548/files/budigezap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9777/4497/files/senate_employment_bulletin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9221/3911/files/list_of_adjectives_grade_4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/0456/2328/files/mekanisme_kerja_ketorolac_injeksi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4889/files/44850679481.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004753.bin
506c3f8a32920b67f4944e6f074bcec1a3786c0d5f0c20d81cbdc5b42b47fd39
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4753 5256 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005932.bin
2f663b39b583f253d2436ab692e3e2f2bd8db6fba7db5cc73c64fa8cfffdd4c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5932 9788 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007a80.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A80 4324 bytes