Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 270bfd8341b1c564…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 19:06:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 37653fce5190bbc0fe985a10c4740517 SHA-1: 072c97499decf9b69cda149c68dbc3a49fc67a21 SHA-256: 270bfd8341b1c564ecd8bbadacdd4857f7a0931cceac4e3b28173e333f8347e5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain keywords related to a manual, suggesting a lure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to attract search engine traffic and potentially distribute malicious content.

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/wb?keyword=skywatcher%20synscan%20v4%20manual
    • http://files.saintmargaret.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738915/nonuviwosif-zevisogefof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4071/9516/files/jozuzuji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1610/8707/files/kosakiluzikitixaporedu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1663/1973/files/51798252562.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3577/6408/files/google_sheets_get_substring.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/8548/3422/files/80134949659.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1785/4373/files/fepureze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7605/0330/files/62458901179.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4979/4213/files/juziwalefarutise.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5572/4197/files/aptitude_test_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0894/0441/files/impact_of_climate_change_on_agriculture_in_solomon_islands.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9291/8937/files/factorio_clear_trees.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2388/3688/files/48816379817.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9032/2335/files/jopef.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_off000044d4.bin
b46a834005c6c624a57884b1d65912c080684abf8c35940005cc53326e48139a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x44D4 5548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000579c.bin
4a65a83bccbf871f6ea5c962997fb8ee08036a55adf7c6ab6fcfc73224d7c1e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x579C 9884 bytes