Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80e68908ef7db90b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.5 KB Created: 2020-08-24 08:03:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ee0d3f4b038fc0f8cf917cd77ce054ca SHA-1: c9386e02a1fddc57b6e1288f9556dd451a96c630 SHA-256: 80e68908ef7db90bdae6ca9151ed7d6509ad4705572bdcf678ce7a88e5b834b0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains a URL that points to a known malicious redirector, which is likely intended to lead the user to a phishing site or download further malware. The presence of numerous embedded links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggests a broad distribution attempt.

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=no+colbert+report+last+night
    • http://files.nickpateras.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710655/d914f150ae.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5158/8507/files/nirosafalafif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0219/1269/files/filo_basidiomycota.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zumimulapowekulusevenire.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9961/7448/files/71364506049.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0458/3318/files/gta_5_minecraft_servers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1231/6584/files/ios_for_ipad_mini_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7743/5556/files/saree_blouse_block_cutting_method.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5335/1066/files/romones.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3431/1845/files/79090093477.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3723/7148/files/manpower_mobilization_plan_template.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_off0000b983.bin
0711c1593e72148c63245c72871f6fb515fd7fd4690ff636a2dd451e93e01441
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB983 5092 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000caaf.bin
7c2fd06fb8dee00be07e974dd736f8c8bd658f7629e61b640c8a713ca3c0f5d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAAF 10684 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000eefd.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEFD 4324 bytes