Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70f519038cd99910…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-08-28 05:31:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4235e3bd218e5151331600e17634e8ea SHA-1: aece5427b8e88a98588b4d811630ca25520fec99 SHA-256: 70f519038cd99910f3a86ee01c98f24865cd6126d00e2a329f7e15494939e431
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with the primary heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and a large number of other URLs pointing to PDF files hosted on Shopify. This suggests a link farm or redirection scheme designed to lead users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous links points towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=rubik%2527s+cube+snake+patterns
    • http://sawego.balancedmedispa.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302780/silepewerox-jinuwujo-panimesan.pdf
    • http://rileg.heraldinghistruthministries.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302782/5de8c.pdf
    • http://files.fourlittlecarpenters.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408056/lumivuvana-nezigamisupifus.pdf
    • http://files.littleandjuniormissbutler.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740511/c8d55f.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6744/9239/files/axis_bank_current_fd_rate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/37741658126.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5565/1743/files/nimaxonajumido.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6052/6246/files/what_is_the_best_ds_emulator.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0805/6740/files/parutusefapefasajif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8904/4383/files/bevekizogagu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1871/4277/files/86206163312.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9291/1007/files/96118835027.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6593/3973/files/ropowodozepurulin.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_off00005fce.bin
d7cb7e6915846fbb98f29d6e96cee800277d323dc7ef13c9f19d255135f404c1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FCE 5140 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007158.bin
2dff06612fe0b977238ca69a2104210bdf7ea61657dd3217ee2d1aafb261ed1b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7158 10520 bytes