Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e71afe7b4adea21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.7 KB Created: 2020-08-14 01:41:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ad26fc1d43a73af82de9370d923b89c2 SHA-1: 2ff1eeb59b51ee7e239cbd48e0da2f73cf6f32ef SHA-256: 4e71afe7b4adea210981b4608cdc3bce41edd4303d6a91f67dc233fae96d73bd
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and heuristics indicate it contains a malicious redirector link and a large number of external links to other PDFs hosted on Shopify. The document body contains garbled text but includes the URL that triggered the malicious redirector heuristic. The primary attack pattern appears to be a link farm designed to lure users to malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=informe+previo+amparo+indirecto+ejemplo
    • http://files.capstonetherapycenters.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874328/b38798a2a7.pdf
    • http://files.cninc.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740479/5324237.pdf
    • http://sitono.faithbaptiststacy.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775374/jukanogufisamitumog.pdf
    • http://kazuf.arc-sf.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379296/4927828.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8025/3593/files/big_poppa_sample.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9051/8940/files/23310414560.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8271/9127/files/bidavenosolar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9729/2967/files/effective_communication_definition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8650/3326/files/kozuza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0149/4179/files/63811752611.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8443/7922/files/cfa_ethics_curriculum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2564/5211/files/37523118968.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6366/5055/files/39997563234.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6348/4315/files/tolewavipuzinojitedunaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8035/8811/files/xulanabigizujejasoreb.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/1/0431/6348/4315/files/tolewavipuz

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007ba8.bin
b4b565f08ab3ce6efeed2f53a2287f3970cfab7e53d5a0415dc8e0052a3fe765
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BA8 4984 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008c80.bin
e5ecad1e4d050cd940328b48a446bea0a1ee8a3ec4f09943de83fdec45bcd8f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C80 11688 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b1d9.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1D9 4324 bytes