Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 304efaa89f8d6639…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.1 KB Created: 2020-08-03 08:06:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d0e0ecaccf14db542e9210d7be86f647 SHA-1: 5ce4793090497adc5e4397a6976372dab925784e SHA-256: 304efaa89f8d663943a617134b3a723f65922d0515526de5ff7d7e50a852661d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains embedded URLs that point to a redirector service and numerous other PDFs hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users.

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/pify?keyword=system+out+println
    • http://files.ccpspasadena.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969600/vavuwuzitakas_pizaxas_xiletikeruruti.pdf
    • http://files.minimalistboutiqueskincare.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682819/2435985.pdf
    • http://files.sweetearthjewelry.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483097/7644913.pdf
    • http://files.blackburnlegal.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437885/judipo_garixobigobol_sajifex_farugabuzikoxen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5521/0905/files/41029917459.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6591/5045/files/56185541587.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2889/8211/files/cherrypickers_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/14981909947.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6643/3435/files/koviwubopafef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6657/2441/files/who_must_file_form_8862.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8960/0414/files/divejutajos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1687/1336/files/20765357323.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4684/4054/files/23577850545.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2518/7491/files/rosadewi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5150/7094/files/43453999847.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_off00008442.bin
27b35bafa6d6d5479d761f90e11644b609231c72729f427749eb325d267370b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8442 4960 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009514.bin
57102001ab98b394504f6f2d0a5c8621f5c6dfb487b853ccd34fcac86c5c6af3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9514 13120 bytes