Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48507e24fa5f0883…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-23 00:59:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0d16664bbdaae632393e7233fceb6241 SHA-1: b5e3164481fbbf1dc22210044b33ddd18998c008 SHA-256: 48507e24fa5f08837cd23540ccb6e0ed55cb650cc922568d70e01a03d92140f1
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggers the malicious redirect. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=alesis+control+pad+user+manual
    • http://wivupafel.fatherbrowning.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856331/4826230.pdf
    • http://files.mofflongboards.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775952/novolojuvulujug-jewolonenuba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7310/9152/files/96878213142.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3896/4903/files/xixemaxujazofanarikuwa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3001/0273/files/60733309416.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6599/7472/files/bluestacks_4_for_pc_highly_compressed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5788/8932/files/60350555419.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4827/8935/files/fidurewamikavab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8199/0295/files/pubadejugit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3192/8740/files/46518000737.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8184/3356/files/33676539904.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4048/0155/files/8024084304.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3826/7809/files/lumirup.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_off000056d4.bin
32bb65e71500dcb7fd0f8e21825db6464a6eb0d936cb22a76224e8681cf8e882
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x56D4 5208 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006864.bin
6ace675e9f8ab45364236015be77c1c347e8c16c79517e28e441ad10a9e9093a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6864 10112 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008b33.bin
b9423132d1eb23228d477a4e7aa6201cf1edfc5936f5ea759fe72b2a7f5e39fb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B33 3044 bytes