Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32b02698053892a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-09-06 16:45:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1ebe61308606ec1a86e84c2b3388e9a2 SHA-1: c596e560431b1e87f9e1e787abbe85ebe70ec9e2 SHA-256: 32b02698053892a683d372450f2212ccadd1da447f11095926a7c08891888cce
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link that is disguised as a search result for an astronomy textbook. This link points to a redirector service which likely leads to a malicious payload. The PDF also contains a large number of links to other PDFs hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.link/wix?keyword=high+school+astronomy+textbook+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4525/6344/files/tegeden.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5552/1695/files/jefivetulofujawotafeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7108/6485/files/free_bootstrap_personal_portfolio_templates.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/32020610097.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8204/6869/files/dagebidomewipoje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4764/1510/files/wimokenigozaxokapivagipem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6836/6760/files/sexelenufejag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1149/7366/files/9605734677.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6009/1287/files/gibupulagawobozoboxomuxis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8079/4790/files/invitation_email_template_for_training.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9102/4280/files/91517980004.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7713/1683/files/capital_and_revenue_expenditure.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1740/2530/files/xotabadejemivosewafawozol.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_off000060ba.bin
93874a7f549417005aa707fc19fe5243ad13f96f8632a1caba2446213bff92a5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60BA 5904 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074bb.bin
dfc0108960026390a25510c1c477c7d6ac079028ab96491afee78cabc5a13992
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74BB 10040 bytes