Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f0953c2330d4bfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.6 KB Created: 2020-08-12 08:05:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 493e212f47f98d6cca738adf58467c34 SHA-1: e1fbb5c41901b289c87f2e414578ca9669a6023e SHA-256: 6f0953c2330d4bfc1b60726547faac389240959e1ce5c0ea44b6f7ee876c8f2a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO spam campaign designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

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=cambridge+english+empower+for+spanish+speakers+a2+pdf
    • http://files.lifeislikevegetables.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384281/lidiki-pumumaborulenuk.pdf
    • http://vopema.jeremylepisto.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969754/jepopulowigan_xesinupuravi_golonimoz.pdf
    • http://files.supwirral.club/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164556/xirirevawovom_jufofuke_dapanil.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/66656561998.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6231/3631/files/nobat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4638/7367/files/xobetetidajat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1918/1978/files/romuvevuvugadi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8499/7017/files/82927642209.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8184/2341/files/radixivawabujivobizibem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5525/9560/files/72802629805.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2042/5115/files/successful_project_management_5th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1315/2673/files/literacy_strategies_for_improving_mathematics_instruction.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7003/7924/files/30934479659.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1071/1971/files/baguxiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2826/6654/files/xolenomexesinademexom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8647/1587/files/84386099573.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_off00004c23.bin
0e25bab1f0a54233012d1e5171eb1693c10abc9e85954ef035df09f0ab647000
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4C23 5788 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005fb7.bin
878cc169805b1b39f5b0ce496c24f19992b6759084176d4c25ccc40e8cac0e00
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FB7 9852 bytes