Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49489c48a599c14a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2020-08-23 22:47:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2b222496f538b45723b13878285c66b3 SHA-1: 4398c99f077e81151100c2e581d041ea504b09e5 SHA-256: 49489c48a599c14ab9f8eee852d00af7e314a69462ef226fcc7d7d509ea18f11
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link that points to a URL designed to lure users with a quiz-related keyword. This URL then leads to a link farm of numerous PDF files hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests an attempt to obscure the malicious intent by presenting a large number of seemingly benign links.

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=halloween+challenge+quiz+riddle+answers
    • http://files.deborahvandelden.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856290/5115099.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/3698/3720/files/bihar_daroga_previous_year_question.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7571/4715/files/deriz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4229/0336/files/free_download_msword2007.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8976/5276/files/xebebebutowakoze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8904/3358/files/91595195195.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tuwaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5643/0230/files/sekodopapedemanujelot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5071/1705/files/pexogatevidejidafojeni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1946/7927/files/83180685207.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0506/6913/files/jekatalisenaxemurep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4599/4146/files/movies_full_hd_new.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6295/1077/files/86394525463.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ad44.bin
19889608ec1ffbeb1bf85857328ba290cde11b4ad2986e7e400fe2d8a8206734
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD44 5428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000bfb6.bin
bc5a444dc83f0aa4af57ae35d9527a19283f85802e97e9f06274c5054930e507
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFB6 2840 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000cbcc.bin
2bf7205172b1b64ee7e3c962debee444d03b3635acc7c6b4de0fce2e86b51a15
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBCC 15456 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000fbca.bin
64f21e55c2f29c6f605e8f9fd96e7f7b34f9b4a26fdc717ddead948457370e3b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBCA 16148 bytes