Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cda4bda030f1baa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-04 02:01:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 34bce5116dfc15fb8e959d938b183191 SHA-1: c14fb5ab550f48a4616db77e8a93144ab7e57827 SHA-256: 3cda4bda030f1baa960544158033b7b013523551add0a9e6f6ce177bfde6c86c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Best pdf reader app for iphone' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=best+pdf+reader+app+for+iphone
    • http://files.audiostak.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814097/49129839d9ac13.pdf
    • http://files.mstreacyloves2travel.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776478/demadamowatebos_kubef_riril.pdf
    • http://files.daisy-acupuncture.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164002/jaretigaxugexig_domasemanune_mototatope.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7121/8588/files/10663810221.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1551/1968/files/mosoletefenujubowu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9967/5041/files/victoria_secret_job_application_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6069/6990/files/sub_box_mini_starter_kit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1594/6911/files/99320226057.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9202/6271/files/tawivogikovawovo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9014/0581/files/charm_person_dnd_5e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3640/8982/files/xugubekokukofuzabu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7449/4369/files/funokeridujegin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3263/0680/files/tenaziwolen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6616/9246/files/kamawisipokidaporul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2639/0946/files/lodajojazusoxobixiloxuw.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_off00006581.bin
08b7e92b220e69a866dc2896b158757c157e2c70fa89985398fa7181adf6b8f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6581 5144 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000076ff.bin
e2f26cd458007750602f7d50049b44da6f70ed0e1ed624afc5998a2de5c3fdde
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76FF 10172 bytes