Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d73d7234b9938d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-08-18 20:20:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d8a83276b38ab9c0d1ec969c09d356f0 SHA-1: fd6054301ef0d5b341e77251a363b277af7ee245 SHA-256: 5d73d7234b9938d0728aaab80f32a9298eabc4fa0794ff92fe2c5e4097116645
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to PDF files hosted on Shopify. One of these links, however, directs to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL for the malicious redirector, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

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=movies+watch+offline+android
    • http://vupiburij.kingseducationprogram.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/a4fbb0c.pdf
    • http://safuvawa.idacanart.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383482/4571b7.pdf
    • http://files.decatn.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681352/a283754eff5c2.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5189/1358/files/cheat_engine_6._4_no_virus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6127/2995/files/35040316077.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4786/9850/files/baova_ena.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4220/9945/files/css_chevron_arrow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9095/8749/files/dulorukibemadaraw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3358/4028/files/guide_post_spacing.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8033/3989/files/achievement_cv_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2684/0738/files/2552287794.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_off00005b70.bin
90d85e88e24cb5f1449012e2f1d4ef4f2daa10cb3e64eaf5d785c14cd086bb08
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B70 5268 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d6f.bin
f0724bf4375f65b55f542bd9f8e60285ede3b1e280c947d24ddf8496fb051364
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D6F 10352 bytes