Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70ce450788c6cb01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-14 13:41:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4d73ab3a77044637b843c7a37ad23ebd SHA-1: 53c34723b34ee87cbf26214fdea935afee93f285 SHA-256: 70ce450788c6cb0146ff1ea7814d795f7462a0dec24cb8376db4c0d95ea8b48d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to benign Shopify URLs, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and a benign URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious activity within a large list of links. 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.com/wb?keyword=mumbai%20university%20idol%20courses%20pdf
    • http://files.jonwray.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302910/puzupijuxotukok.pdf
    • http://files.daughtersofthenewmoon.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406893/zevedabarij.pdf
    • http://pakili.christianlitforafrica.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/9240955.pdf
    • http://files.hopespringsvenue.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874480/3731519.pdf
    • http://files.brianwhitson.me/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696113/fafuvapo.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4101/4438/files/81567420715.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1714/0386/files/transformers_mod_1._7._10.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9331/9068/files/doxotaruf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7353/5138/files/15273415830.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1539/6776/files/59979577757.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pekazojifedabefotekufof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0621/4819/files/botumikat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4982/6969/files/dozoxepakum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2992/8863/files/sans_discord_emoji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1808/2709/files/sazupudidarujofivabuvize.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_off00007162.bin
3d8c81069611b3acb2df51b6ce06f6be4b20879112efe815b85f550dc796ad0c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7162 5608 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008468.bin
b0d63d6c50361eb8d31d35ad9d792fb477733a72a55e29803994c8d8bd7b995d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8468 10504 bytes