Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36f0451fbbffb58c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-08-03 19:10:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e72121fd7f86c84884a9da2a379398ba SHA-1: ad35160498a37dcf53d9b7c0cfb20b22edd1cb73 SHA-256: 36f0451fbbffb58cd239d37f479de3206c494ddcf98f79343cf4ad227dab7645
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Bruce lee fighting method volume 1 pdf' and references wkhtmltopdf, suggesting a lure to download a document. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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/pify?keyword=bruce+lee+fighting+method+volume+1+pdf
    • http://lidokefiw.lincolncollegechapelchoir.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681670/5531515.pdf
    • http://files.maccurdysalisbury.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738859/c0960.pdf
    • http://files.cyclonecanvas.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163516/1914316.pdf
    • http://files.seasonalshowers.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775145/varubebun-wimitudelejoba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6728/4379/files/tijagefipaniredal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0664/7717/files/kohler_marine_generator_parts.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9165/6855/files/45186475715.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8116/9051/files/99219055729.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5174/5442/files/duxigivofemuzetir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1594/6911/files/lurorogegivixamu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6317/2502/files/58600364098.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7317/4680/files/39863379665.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9902/1717/files/kilejojuximanarefanotej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7937/6798/files/java_foundations_3rd_edition.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_off00006ae2.bin
db1510327a5fab4fe47532f009a6c5c4679f53e976dec84a7c8b0d9ffbff522e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AE2 5340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007cf8.bin
70da7074741d404008c00fc97731bb4349bd49ec6d93352fbd2254cf275b516d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CF8 10676 bytes