Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74644e4ea16db963…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-08-20 22:29:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e7813e89ba8fddcc6b2e30cc18a0a4e8 SHA-1: 2f4392ecb79612832bcdf39b2b8e47b3fa7c90a1 SHA-256: 74644e4ea16db9633dddbcebf55af014ab63c73a16526787732893ebe230f875
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO manipulation scheme designed to funnel users to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=billionaire+song++320kbps
    • http://files.treefaeriefotos.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871894/8193451.pdf
    • http://files.kaluppc.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071289/tetavosiv.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1246/4550/files/ammonification_and_nitrification.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4143/8366/files/8856517809.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9568/7328/files/tutorial_on_java_programming_for_beginners.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2249/5389/files/uptet_answer_key_2020_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8867/4967/files/tejonidapego.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2724/2914/files/wapulagasikobi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5538/0630/files/nekeluzev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6373/6485/files/zambian_catholic_choir_songs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8463/4530/files/womad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4866/3200/files/takereserenimalezesewuga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1274/2550/files/73740188490.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9249/2963/files/70272710535.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6013/3030/files/sonuwof.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_off000071df.bin
286f7089a3be8e49af5c710ea1cf7211efdae6ff47a704b55a47d7784523d0dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71DF 5676 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008536.bin
90f9936684534adeab4f5e001500dfe37b8e6f063e27796a1ec8e5abebfd2dd0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8536 10344 bytes