Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d5c5462b1ca4b17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.4 KB Created: 2020-08-04 01:38:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 57aeb95eee612674f91d621d06d11036 SHA-1: 0871a3c1511352f02e7e130d0745c79417cbe569 SHA-256: 7d5c5462b1ca4b1742ca24e528955576ce62266f735c7d1e673b0f6f1ad15330
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, suggesting an attempt to lead the user to harmful content. The document also hosts a large number of external PDF links, many of which point to Shopify domains, potentially as a way to obscure the malicious redirector or to appear as a legitimate link farm. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or redirection attack.

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=renal+tubular+acidosis+guidelines+pdf
    • http://files.tatianasmithstkitts.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636969/3a8d0a66a9d4619.pdf
    • http://files.mattgibsonart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437515/a41b0b8f5756f9.pdf
    • http://files.stagehillpolo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438019/gidefo.pdf
    • http://zopamuno.priestesssahara.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775387/2058347.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4246/4163/files/33479404680.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2729/1544/files/jelubofusus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2672/7580/files/osmoregulation_in_amphibians.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8157/3279/files/dametepalonufodezuxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3844/0598/files/42321292581.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4829/6857/files/74528780960.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4996/5985/files/jasase.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9538/3446/files/lapudimubazutizonofemuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5684/0354/files/51548623952.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9899/5864/files/liwanibofabo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2590/7368/files/bonemujokode.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_off00007a5f.bin
6710ebd6defe6cba6bee21a6a76eca68e9527e88faa4e1c2b5d3144d910f8c44
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A5F 5472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008d06.bin
e71f6619a0d541105761adc110ca7acef92d9ce637ef7b7b291e76a4ec55d5f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D06 10404 bytes