Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41b094475a4d0069…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.5 KB Created: 2020-07-27 10:40:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d270af5eb9272d61f195ab5a4307981d SHA-1: 2999cceab16da223631bb913485b9517178aacd2 SHA-256: 41b094475a4d0069678740bc7a80f178bef0c8b599a32fae333ccd7f1cb6b754
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated and likely contains further lures or obfuscated content.

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=latest+b.+o.+c+music
    • http://files.laurelschoolbrewsteronline.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406337/a5fca49caaad.pdf
    • http://files.wctimage.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969967/lopemejelagobixute.pdf
    • http://files.projectechelon22.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606396/gurazosaxuzutoxizo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3750/files/bojomidifufosepodale.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2272/0922/files/repabupibe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0604/2023/files/62425914237.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5109/6993/files/74908820277.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0790/9794/files/68981537237.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/12247178291.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4841/8973/files/91524085956.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0084/7781/files/89054793154.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7751/5929/files/mobabasigusaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1926/3397/files/9082013072.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3420/6620/files/60757251947.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2897/1674/files/52363586871.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1732/3175/files/winibitof.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_off000088d3.bin
b77f6c373bea93ecf0c6777894aa8de9daefb558f714793245c8d2805d5d19ce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88D3 4708 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000098e5.bin
6a22c862e66c14ab9b570b7d97f1420aa277f195ab60dfa93531b1515d034bac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98E5 10640 bytes