Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5aa7d87f80febe7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.3 KB Created: 2020-08-17 02:56:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 06819ef8f6346b6af19f57f1f528087d SHA-1: 07867b33a56e2425e28881b14adbaafb3651e0f7 SHA-256: 5aa7d87f80febe7a6186b83c3390585743163330fc7c54554a6658e5d2caa4f6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and other PDF links, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute content or manipulate search engine results. No scripts were extracted, and the primary malicious activity observed is the redirection and hosting of numerous 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.cc/pify?keyword=auld+lang+syne+piano+sheet+music
    • http://kekasejuv.nuevaarts.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303189/weximebe.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4135/6950/files/doluvorugotevavojajaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9217/1165/files/metra_bnsf_schedule.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6484/2657/files/vuvoresugikupojewafuzamu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2317/9677/files/chamakam_telugu_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1223/5174/files/arte_de_la_real_audiencia_de_quito.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5969/8077/files/tazumob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9948/8410/files/ashokan_farewell_quartet_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0877/7637/files/66856372616.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3323/0488/files/xifopoxigujibunaw.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_off00003f9f.bin
e48e609f8f7f26a6e8ce51edca53e10f2ab1c52e38e85f79a6221853642d7a8b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3F9F 5484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005222.bin
271a8ceca01fdba8e0511bad420e94b0163a09cb59e4873f05dd63f30164f34d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5222 8996 bytes