Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75b36c94f81f232f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-08-18 22:30:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a6fcedef87e01e2535a2b9f2a57fba8c SHA-1: ec12ac42dc828955f8b5db0e0894ec8c2c9e1009 SHA-256: 75b36c94f81f232f3de7b7c0180329ca47c3ee6d112d33dcc1667015959dfeed
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it directs users to malicious infrastructure. It also exhibits PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM behavior by embedding a large number of external links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs but including a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and text suggesting a lure for 'video sites mp4'. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded links are the primary mechanism for redirection.

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.ru/pify?keyword=video++sites+mp4
    • http://files.mrssmithsclasses.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775180/9297afcadaa6.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7354/5116/files/carboxylic_acid_group_chemguide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6728/5408/files/18522788199.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8656/0936/files/29193661375.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8637/9160/files/42225272802.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9251/2678/files/81293103992.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6338/6016/files/38174978063.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9132/9173/files/ropoketejiwub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4000/6559/files/kebexumowamoreti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5465/1799/files/65550914088.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_off00005e04.bin
235de5954aaf07dd8478a59fb5d721bfd6f8a87e9d2b8de7ca4f43dd19c70894
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E04 4820 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e65.bin
5108fa0db99935741c5eb63c411a16d9921c6d82d7b005df464a9866d5689312
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E65 10192 bytes