Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51180b2bc5c42d55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-03 22:54:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: deafaed479e27aa65581736438c111ba SHA-1: 112312c8ce33505c0dde7fdd2d2ed621fb12fb08 SHA-256: 51180b2bc5c42d550f8bce9e8423ead1a979cb3497a443193424a3e9684c75a5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the redirector found in the heuristics. The presence of numerous links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or a method to distribute malicious content indirectly. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=complete+ielts+bands+6.+5+7.+5+workbook+with+answers+pdf+%25D1%2581%25D0%25BA%25D0%25B0%25D1%2587%25D0%25B0%25D1%2582%25D1%258C
    • http://files.artsanimalsandawakenings.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398541/4102317.pdf
    • http://files.bcaprastudioarts.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453432/xunuk.pdf
    • http://files.celestialstarsdance.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814132/jikulon.pdf
    • http://files.humactive-formation.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453219/2fc36293960dea2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8276/0870/files/4590201524.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4724/7263/files/kejokusut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6730/2295/files/vakunija.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5205/7244/files/minecraft_unbreaking_enchantment.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0331/3315/files/aieee_2020_question_paper_with_solution_download_vidyalankar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/8839/2871/files/what_is_origin_in_git.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3523/8301/files/46961495223.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0237/9939/files/vapuruwexi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9363/8811/files/luvuzasuxevivudegisojero.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9140/9558/files/78633499384.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_off00005b0b.bin
814d4682a3261f1b0297568c03b7466b36d788c6ef527cc26fd7e83088317b17
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B0B 6500 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000708c.bin
15e8182c5578183c2096472c2c8d9997a6a0acf13fcf72c9933a86fc93f1141a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x708C 10224 bytes