Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 650e6a2d3b852c53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-19 12:50:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 232d804a861e1bff136a110f4fa7903f SHA-1: e1603d1d8a032a31fed363d317f5ea28ddcf7b62 SHA-256: 650e6a2d3b852c53cd0313eeddb02b2e3d3272ce2dae1749e8770e9210f22166
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of external links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The presence of a 'download button' lure and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent to redirect the user to harmful content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure suggests a link farm or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=adjective+and+adverb+free+printable+worksheets
    • http://files.montsmamomma.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874521/murisuvonetejozapu.pdf
    • http://zatojeb.cherylmccallister.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/9634286.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9664/6556/files/javascript_sort_array_of_numbers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7241/4106/files/63240926366.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5172/6501/files/um_4400_124.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6869/3411/files/4921454966.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wakorijupomimenupe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7147/1767/files/litun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0501/7255/files/intel_gma_x4500.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9276/0981/files/agility_training_for_basketball.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6897/1418/files/rebakujusajafevoparob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1097/2056/files/53046045160.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_off00006791.bin
63a1be3771937fcd893e346e30e03220626da45730689cc4f03525ab9c776fd1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6791 5664 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007adc.bin
d6c1845d5b4fc3afaa9c6d23470a43f30cf314e2e85dd2a853fe5ef1e67530c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7ADC 10312 bytes