Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c949aea3ad6a8a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.4 KB Created: 2020-08-24 00:44:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0af1c22d2a646c86ddd6c2cce74da76c SHA-1: 5d35154e749f85988e5ac8c8afb0a7067a34c459 SHA-256: 7c949aea3ad6a8a3b6c02c725ccdad79c010d911809c98c8319a72a62a1bda1a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Corrugated sheet screws' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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.cc/pify?keyword=corrugated+sheet+screws
    • http://gikijobuw.nfcss.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776433/f01dc8951.pdf
    • http://vutolog.malloryaballinger.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682076/1629117.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3404/9703/files/bikevexalowowaxaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/1743/3251/files/edema_cerebral_definicion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5589/6983/files/dideka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2052/5469/files/mikubulafutowukukitena.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3098/4357/files/40874402773.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5416/1310/files/32555134402.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3033/0019/files/28525087675.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4942/6839/files/canadian_aviation_regulations_english.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6068/1109/files/nazelamuwegedijifobe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6268/0984/files/93384941624.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8734/5304/files/12486618413.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4387/1128/files/62813554286.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0455/3238/1349/files/covering_letter_templates_for_admin_jobs.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_off000042d4.bin
e9954f040aeeb99ed7e1dbdd2c59f81ae641eea8c7b4614cb22a1d479015907a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x42D4 5164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005472.bin
310794810671b62b12532d0c4db9923baf3ab1d1936b52efd3da1a7aaf4eacfb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5472 9436 bytes