Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d2c8e436c26a450…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-05 22:57:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 154996bd0cba0cb2b2a8271273932816 SHA-1: 74aa74c9cf1c7cf268c678d0c4c3fc67d5458031 SHA-256: 3d2c8e436c26a45032179e8707ac56e830950411a48ddddd65379876f44b2d51
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, but the primary redirector URL is identified as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and references to 'autoclave principle and uses pdf', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. 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=autoclave+principle+and+uses+pdf
    • http://files.mos5stepchallenge.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740256/tedixabuw.pdf
    • http://files.stevetowers.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398242/tozarasugajer-suravirudewijo-xafexemelasi.pdf
    • http://files.gktfreechurch.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408056/271687.pdf
    • http://files.awhillans.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873838/7800286.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7578/8182/files/34981447907.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3886/6593/files/12203983366.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4645/8776/files/bizomadezusufipa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6245/9544/files/wipalurukoxes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4210/2679/files/dowakirexexalazix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3292/0732/files/4526289687.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2438/2114/files/39387227057.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8251/3561/files/sorting_algorithms_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8990/3259/files/xafobije.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6127/9896/files/22094162088.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2884/8538/files/git_update_from_master.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2598/9785/files/37548251916.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4210/267

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000070ec.bin
9289d92475d5ea31c883bac0aad7e317be39baf21f616ad62526d1590eb57d19
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70EC 5196 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000082b3.bin
10d867059b5ddbb1d0424554456dc6bd68d3c006d51e01c35ac584f7f99482e8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82B3 9936 bytes