Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7073a9fb366688a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.3 KB Created: 2020-07-30 19:29:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c098c48ada1e76b6f6cdb35baf7ba4e4 SHA-1: 7981aa2742abd4738e0c214956e11acf046476b4 SHA-256: 7073a9fb366688a5a8d00aff76d1d2b053dfc0d73f5444b495d1fca688d7681d
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, and one primary link to a known malicious redirector. This suggests a link farm or spam campaign designed to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also 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=variedades+de+cafe+resistentes+ala+roya+pdf
    • http://files.silentgiantentertainment.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131859895/mivipamilebekizoxas.pdf
    • http://files.theharbourcc.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411762/goxameb.pdf
    • http://files.ellenbrookeelsnc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813447/7a190487774692.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6549/1106/files/simujelogagikefetapokifu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6643/3429/files/60271244292.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0727/0297/files/lukekapemaxofojojulazeza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9578/5629/files/70851008879.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0046/2503/files/98174860832.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7151/8373/files/pamapufabaxepejebomika.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3005/2005/files/gufivowosasomi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6314/8706/files/ruwubudiwijifonebafol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4827/9957/files/deniniwo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6243/5739/files/feteje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1093/1358/files/buwam.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_off000096f5.bin
21d77cf474dbc1dc07ee221364f2a86e05a3f006fb87b70d39fc3dad6b7ff05a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96F5 5004 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a80c.bin
fbdb2018b528f8a5552b9935e4e9e833bb07140c0c25c3d590a3d028749d9159
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA80C 11664 bytes