Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38af48b02a5cd255…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-19 00:25:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dd40c3602aa530071cc336334fe98ea6 SHA-1: 98bd9832ab5a7d506515d81b2bd057f59204550f SHA-256: 38af48b02a5cd255495e3d7888e8fb10744c8d09810c7e81789d772b9ad9cdce
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that mirrors the one identified by the heuristics, suggesting a lure for users to download potentially malicious software. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a coordinated effort to distribute content, with at least one link pointing to a known malicious redirector.

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=bloons+td+5+mod+apk+3.+16
    • http://serivod.riavandeneynde.studio/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/7095713.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6803/8049/files/bebikijijukelurufoja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4314/1270/files/mikowole.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8180/1629/files/27113839056.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2729/8461/files/ridavi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/2844/3299/files/ubuntu_edit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4877/2508/files/5204368425.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5346/6271/files/22558442657.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2642/2687/files/5407105188.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/58933331969.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9780/1375/files/68631938291.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3137/9618/files/48840297290.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/20116177671.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_off00005ae3.bin
3743c6ec309fb7c0394377e544c7eccc8ce1897edc75a4052267d4a880cc80d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AE3 5272 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006cb7.bin
96e4e861ae741fa1745605836dc4585d3ea54f6ff8fe213c745d36b44cfb7151
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CB7 10060 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008f27.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F27 4324 bytes