Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 791e848092cd44e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-15 00:14:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 29dba5cbd911ceafc87fc81d07e0d507 SHA-1: 899c0009a33665a4fd1300fe66aa47c0dffb02ce SHA-256: 791e848092cd44e4868604fb79e7edef691238ab864838909421b41682057a9f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains a URL that mirrors the malicious redirector's target. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to obscure the true malicious destination.

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=simple+past+negative+form+pdf
    • http://files.karereviews.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856333/c800b.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4492/0734/files/s_chand_books_for_class_10_physics_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8536/9239/files/darofejubugunezuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0076/5336/files/suwelug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0477/3031/files/konurixu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6392/7206/files/greenwaste_santa_cruz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9554/6273/files/bazizetisonunobodanose.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2764/5095/files/gukoninu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9914/3838/files/fejemovonidonowuxaxup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5780/6486/files/sudiwetolebixik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6823/5682/files/31614877424.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0586/9213/files/zerixikegifoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/29331550606.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_off00006575.bin
21c4cd4efabeac94468f5e1a21b583a3001f166f986c205833b982a637d34d49
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6575 5524 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007826.bin
a85186eab28ba889dc92683072cc7922672390b53f77923c7dff63715feea4cb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7826 10060 bytes