Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6fbfb2166ca92a4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-18 23:51:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f867720ad17a37953087e685783b1964 SHA-1: 6ee389d08e979cf8ea225718e98d40a58496fe11 SHA-256: 6fbfb2166ca92a4a8302fafced06ae7802f270e7da8fa02c5c1d5168fc05eb02
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting an 'itinerary example format' which likely serves as a lure. The presence of numerous links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=itinerary+example+format
    • http://kuregos.17knotskitesurfcenter.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738765/tewumagir-dosizolomipi-mazadeke.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7354/5116/files/74307802742.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5915/8940/files/numota.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4458/6140/files/plural_of_irregular_nouns.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7982/6589/files/72543889493.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0657/4240/files/89806179513.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7613/2774/files/37672537555.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2885/7503/files/3918421310.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2698/7680/files/tatomulirekujaderi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8271/9127/files/rudul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9691/4587/files/rixurudiwozabojig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9297/4499/files/satosojanizulo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7516/5594/files/73587506656.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_off00006ab0.bin
595632cd27dfb0277d2c88385b566f3564ea67e7ec42462aa7216cd52ede2267
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AB0 4976 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b94.bin
b07e4457273da41ce7cdac3b798bb1b79f881fa9a565ff0e94008dbc71874896
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B94 10068 bytes