Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a5a9cfb40b18c51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-09-05 23:52:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9e2507b9b2179ba76126576c84ee8262 SHA-1: 514b1e38ef962d1bb924ea9361676b8d2b02da8f SHA-256: 5a5a9cfb40b18c519b8bc459156e2c59a579982835a785bd34fd0cee7a16d54c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign designed to drive traffic to malicious sites. 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.link/wix?keyword=what+is+love+for+you+yahoo+answers
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5442/3464/files/dixoxilopabatibakewid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2033/6802/files/piximanumajijujatadu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1349/7251/files/hidden_figures_epub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/6171/4584/files/font_awesome_free_offline.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7243/8947/files/45150113401.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5610/2565/files/27778501693.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5698/8317/files/mexuvazarelijuguliriru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1764/1879/files/zotozojoxarojimawarej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7850/6909/files/omsa_8._4_windows.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ced2dc_3964385a76ee4b57982ac31e3fb62be8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9cc572_8b874897202f42e1917cf6ad89992565.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0511f5_3e601a75fbe944b49414dd9678da8c29.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005f69.bin
7f7319f5eb4ff781c3bea67409ecb9e6f93b1cdc45a04058fdcaa3bed1aab1f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F69 5120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070ee.bin
d98b328b66d9ea052d9fa524b33bc83e77e042aeca2900de11831aa130ba46be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70EE 10116 bytes