Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e90a44d506927b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.3 KB Created: 2020-08-20 13:47:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 050d11f4158e22696d101f7d4a342d45 SHA-1: 3c484e477ff58636763be7da09499885f2aac176 SHA-256: 5e90a44d506927b3ed6af49c9a066c712e3170ace1af285e1e2dadaa26dc2be3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to benign Shopify URLs, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'prime factorization' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a redirector link indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=prime+factorization+of+180+answers
    • http://files.redandgreen.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740278/1f45b9f20eeac8.pdf
    • http://files.met-track.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070330/5729293.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1610/0776/files/iron_jawed_angels_worksheet_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1547/8176/files/28573580647.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0777/8711/files/5562941234.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1909/0595/files/pigorezirilope.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7424/7069/files/rizeliludi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0962/1665/files/70143102615.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/65939759823.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2033/6807/files/korewibotuvidadob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2486/5685/files/xedadu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2670/8640/files/88203464415.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3287/1074/files/arithmetic_sequence_problem_solving_with_solution.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_off000044ed.bin
ec960ca2f9543699ebb958271f76f51f506a205355f5e5778325944c6511de75
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x44ED 5524 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000057b4.bin
4963d7b3a8463aa83c3ea157f2de0b4b947068e7a36eb81d2205e0d833cab7b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57B4 9624 bytes