Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d60e628e140bd97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-08-27 22:40:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6107f43c0af3637cfee3b397f9814870 SHA-1: 7428567148bef0f279576de2634b381aec97b9c1 SHA-256: 5d60e628e140bd978cdff81ce1ed118a95494baa6ae6aef21207e1a87c3f51c6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded URLs, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for a textbook download, directing users to the malicious URL. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute the malicious PDF.

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=blitzer+college+algebra+6th+edition+pdf+download
    • http://files.iditarod100.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379039/b7de9.pdf
    • http://files.breatheserenity.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406544/9072758.pdf
    • http://files.rpsings.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606003/335d86abe42a33d.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9227/9460/files/lolokuxerov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0324/8803/files/english_descriptive_writing.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6912/9372/files/tujipusovokexumi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0118/4417/files/39408190972.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0009/4112/files/cheat_engine_6._1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0333/1231/files/42423651149.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0449/2950/files/alexis_carrel_viaje_a_lourdes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4463/4773/files/najamugerejajov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/2648/2071/files/71036732728.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5706/1796/files/kundli_pro_software_by_durlabh_jain.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_off00007654.bin
981739947cc13f1dcc6aef1703b3c698fe064749c22f4b4b0bcf788d2ab83ac9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7654 5724 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000089db.bin
cc44a527f856496d5316ac60ffb3aca664f34328fd3167509c214f24a63c8d19
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x89DB 10800 bytes