Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78f6564d42951ec6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-08-20 02:53:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: aadaeeb6eecdd3e7ba784d8e7cb4bb1f SHA-1: 0af151922e5d2386d2a0eb50d8a22101b66896a3 SHA-256: 78f6564d42951ec6c3dab4dacfc155e148c133f292f0d42ae4e774af515a9ac1
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF document was flagged as malicious due to a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to distribute malicious content. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=sujet+brevet+2019+sciences+pdf
    • http://files.modestlymade.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857631/394327.pdf
    • http://jufusexab.elilanguagemagazines.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070767/nujadotoramul.pdf
    • http://files.ipathinc.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814958/5473946.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6434/5255/files/18843479409.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6704/0154/files/4224220529.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0406/0071/files/45287851365.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0568/9504/files/mosivudaxesixeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8271/9127/files/15494923984.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6371/9574/files/docker_run_bash_in_container.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8135/0820/files/calligrapher_s_bible.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5359/6310/files/lotaxatifatal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3300/1126/files/casablanca_city_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7618/2426/files/pinakekunuturipeli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6170/5888/files/wugesenizuxafumalezuvu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6749/7884/files/bavoruxanugojigusenaxasa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9825/0141/files/addicted_novel.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005ff9.bin
8e9a7ffaaaf6a909af6c628dcac57fc710a9199cb04a57d755249ae514a964e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FF9 5768 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000073b5.bin
02acf4165f554a3d166ea60747944224e969e304059b3add2db8d3afb6f18846
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73B5 1956 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007cd7.bin
becacb1259fcb29048ae689fcce3df866c221f1fd27a01137efec1f62a8e661b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CD7 11580 bytes