Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6616be0ba94a8f8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.1 KB Created: 2020-08-19 00:37:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 387617214c72e15cbc2d6b9df3f7b558 SHA-1: b0ed291fda6060041e1a08bae14947178b74798e SHA-256: 6616be0ba94a8f8bb83aa971bbbe03bdcc15a01dc67c5f4808eab9b1732c5c76
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of numerous links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic, with the primary malicious link likely serving as a gateway to further malicious content or malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

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=alarm+check+valve+reliable+pdf
    • http://tilakemu.nicolewijngaarden.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380600/760611.pdf
    • http://files.emberlense.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858791/sibojatusizozonenat.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7822/1973/files/sudalewegumuzipemobada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7027/4201/files/vascular_surgery_textbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4889/files/deropiwufu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6545/8336/files/bomba_de_engranajes_internos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5322/7936/files/86342478917.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2499/7800/files/battery_charging_basics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0210/9856/files/41877161184.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4176/7072/files/17107887787.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9514/6139/files/deep_approach_to_learning.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7401/8716/files/64538122593.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_off000053e7.bin
27af6b3098c1541b08b13c13273e27c8d813828ad2c28b789d47fbf2af3daf91
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53E7 5472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006655.bin
e51f5b9af92b7c16af8e47cf50fb57ee02665ad4927d5d50e12b4a160c0878cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6655 9840 bytes