Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76fd83f5eb029c5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.0 KB Created: 2020-08-03 07:48:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 07e19405e6148d51fd56aca6aaebe66c SHA-1: 381a02af2e9ab79402920e79d0bca51fb09f85a0 SHA-256: 76fd83f5eb029c5fa41606f19c8f111ac760cda444cebfa0f278aafc8a3f04c0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to URLs that are part of a link farm hosted on Shopify. This suggests the primary purpose is to distribute traffic to potentially malicious sites, likely for SEO spam or phishing.

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=synonym+for+write
    • http://files.drewbdavidoff.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681951/a63c5.pdf
    • http://files.transactionbankingacademy.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607075/9288390.pdf
    • http://files.heavitreesquilometre.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398253/vefix-kufodapuma-sekakulokoki-biwemozubez.pdf
    • http://files.tiffinindia.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452858/1252758.pdf
    • http://wimazav.browndogbiking.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383284/d2bb4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9569/5266/files/tuzewifusowivogitiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4311/0564/files/xss_filter_java.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9812/8036/files/zazexirabejuzux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8037/5704/files/75487953376.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2286/0956/files/jaxusoxojom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6789/0069/files/32159635654.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9161/6153/files/marijamezixozipomirojobu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1391/5303/files/59521924556.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0467/4727/files/36530780283.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5040/1945/files/7310020202.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0008/6180/files/guzabuvanotu.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005b5f.bin
85a80c86fd6f2e8e421fe1b15802db886ba14a5925fccda4e3b092658869d9f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B5F 4788 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006bb1.bin
f6e95d98826c430d68cc9b4562624955873482417ae5c9868f1699193a3225cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BB1 10368 bytes