Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65887087bad3ef3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-17 05:15:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4e4bc8f2793a1a1e23d20fb29a956731 SHA-1: b4638629d3259f3695002540a698157b816ab1e9 SHA-256: 65887087bad3ef3c660c60e324a807a73f3660977981e6d27eaf9f5cdec1e7dc
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF 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 ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The presence of a malicious redirector suggests an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

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=dancing+line+the+piano+sheet
    • http://posefinap.lhuhousing.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857054/3950089.pdf
    • http://files.eliteeuromotors.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384777/71b9ed5209f7867.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9923/4203/files/b_tech_cosmetics_syllabus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1867/1512/files/fallout_4_console_commands_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0172/4580/files/biwugajimuxagumonisinilil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6716/3302/files/call_of_duty_mobile_apk_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sovir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0508/3811/files/77677371313.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/99231100330.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8017/9107/files/73140230630.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4392/1820/files/blood_shard_wow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1381/5966/files/free_a4_brochure_template_psd.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_off00005f3f.bin
65e262f553f66d3d51218cb8c63d7a33b81761a0a0de6e35b6ee26f24390e858
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F3F 5096 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007096.bin
154b42ffd4344e298ffec8e4ccab2f10610a024304c1909c6bf48ce048bf397d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7096 14852 bytes