Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 588b49b4494db068…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.0 KB Created: 2020-08-04 03:00:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c69ea73b778ce3d65e489ec4f0312f43 SHA-1: 01159818d8bce8b6cb22b6ae50f9f38f4bb3d7c6 SHA-256: 588b49b4494db06829c662e927b40022a646c5e0f39834880104f0f5883de4a6
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to known malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Web design course outline pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, likely to obscure the malicious redirector. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=web+design+course+outline+pdf
    • http://files.mropinionhead.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969809/ripemevuwol.pdf
    • http://files.gracespringhill.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874639/kumuxitetove.pdf
    • http://files.benedictbrooks.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483275/5695860.pdf
    • http://files.klamathmosquito.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453536/2792825.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6045/3785/files/guvademebiluw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/96989945255.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7139/6257/files/vanomidotof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0949/9558/files/26816944911.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6404/7269/files/79585399330.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1125/2132/files/22354788342.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4504/4892/files/39535416375.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1637/2892/files/diniwefa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5123/8047/files/pibebamimotusofiwudapovej.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/1/0429/6045/378

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008eb5.bin
1e3183bf2e4f5a30532fa13759b2a00515e41084f8beb767d87aee35ec2c102b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8EB5 5264 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a0bb.bin
2be8118ef59360b651f908e6c36de2dca90f12ed0bccc58362959f0455b3f5dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0BB 10188 bytes