Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 798f82f7ad96028e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.4 KB Created: 2020-08-26 14:03:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0520a209eb6d945dbe028d4003216f96 SHA-1: d7fcc235021e31b1a4a482c4525125df9716fcc4 SHA-256: 798f82f7ad96028eceab990d2f86cf85c872eb2e534563f25e44203079d18cdc
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to benign Shopify URLs, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the heuristic firings confirm the presence of a malicious redirector and a link farm. The document body contains obfuscated text and the target URL, suggesting a lure to external content.

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=the+reaper%2527+s+image
    • http://files.burmantoftscommunityprojects.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681928/7019272.pdf
    • http://kipokez.bloomkc.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872303/955f09d69.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4900/7769/files/adjustment_computations_spatial_data_analysis_5th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3774/4534/files/tavewegasagu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6345/1560/files/enteral_feeding_guidelines_for_neonates.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4192/9886/files/kangwon_land_annual_report_2017.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6877/5841/files/the_cosmic_perspective_6th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1782/2620/files/81454475402.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/6086/2632/files/general_administration_and_administrative_reforms_department_haryana.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/83142526711.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1036/6362/files/velekujuxebejonatejobikon.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_off0000547b.bin
be7277c6323797045b41484a90480759df5c253a1905425fa04b78426d1d9aba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x547B 5184 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006608.bin
f9c039f197b5cd5292d9c388cb275fb830b9d1ae28e646b445bb56c529ddb03f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6608 10288 bytes