Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84b2f124aa3dea79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.3 KB Created: 2020-08-24 16:13:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 13d2c275783dd856acd6654d49d3e175 SHA-1: 867b251bf974b0db7782b1cd57e7eb9d34c7cc8d SHA-256: 84b2f124aa3dea79c21a7405ec5cf8d016f096532885181e9bfdcb8ea83501f6
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the malicious redirector. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated 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.ru/pify?keyword=imci+guidelines+2016+pdf
    • http://files.annishealinggarden.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776864/kuxafixogudaruwuje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8795/3062/files/chordates_mcqs_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0607/3759/files/creative_resume_template_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5987/9841/files/pivaxaligin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/20116177671.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7651/7014/files/vatogapojukegijaza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0110/9920/files/tisamapivuvujoxibe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8534/8510/files/krugman_wells_microeconomics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8300/5093/files/77464392466.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2925/8649/files/54654751326.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1776/2973/files/strategic_thinking_training.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005889.bin
8fcff588cc60951fc8c34083c1791efe47728dd348c8b88c6053868733d1fdc6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5889 5588 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b7b.bin
16d5637efe9cf578a27050aa68e5d6f9b6842dde97f379201d9ab8cfb6d92d02
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B7B 9628 bytes