Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6fd4fbf6c507dc27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.5 KB Created: 2020-08-20 00:43:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a8a7a80e857498b09335efc604ac2cdb SHA-1: e14bd86ce8fd41488c74737393712f8f313cef8a SHA-256: 6fd4fbf6c507dc275c9ab4223a853913b1822f37f60194eda3e6df3b06f1a292
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though obfuscated, includes a title suggesting a meeting invitation, likely a social engineering lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm used to obscure the malicious redirector.

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.com/pify?keyword=invitation+to+meeting+letter+template
    • http://sizukewix.7240club.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453060/xelodate_wesofufo_duvotumilokob.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0008/5160/files/beatport_top_100_s_july_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1279/2225/files/agile_scrum_master_certification_exam_questions_dump.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8909/8907/files/vuzeka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7848/3096/files/borefukulemizuzipoxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9628/6119/files/anatomy_directional_terms_practice_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3786/7687/files/vevatikulutuzeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3651/5224/files/49749172078.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4647/8759/files/48969068118.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9249/9877/files/absorption_chiller_catalogue.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2885/7503/files/47040140334.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1424/0931/files/joel_osteen_become_a_better_you_free_download.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_off0000754f.bin
892cd93613d1586ebe7b4e95d781fffc5d5677157c8471de1c3aefe6045f0ac8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x754F 4956 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000861b.bin
75cfbac0f3f5cebfbb14ef34f3ec06f06ad79cf7de390b7ce476a3177b0b0706
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x861B 13676 bytes