Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 854c560412868cb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.3 KB Created: 2020-08-02 19:27:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2ca4515a75ac437b67c5082c937fe408 SHA-1: e42968367f0c6e337c87241615df6fc0980a180c SHA-256: 854c560412868cb65230726227410b710e729dfb00982f1395f8cd76eea0046f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a known malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Marine corps ring tone' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to entice users to click the link. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, which are likely part of a link farm to improve SEO for malicious 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.cc/pify?keyword=marine+corps+ring+tone
    • http://files.namvetscolumbus.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695361/6373637.pdf
    • http://files.pittsburghcatchwrestling.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969160/xozigitojiwukob.pdf
    • http://files.maconmedicalgroup.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636903/wovanobiwemejexojij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0923/6374/files/92837222284.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1007/2481/files/da_1687_fillable.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7594/5113/files/xijotokinezuzojofogemu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7258/4870/files/piwesukapomipalizas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sujufizolotedugogu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8954/2809/files/xevilekebixiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1401/9496/files/bafeni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1171/8820/files/pijukozewofemarukifo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0496/0676/files/31069617292.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vazakiliduvapi.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_off00005253.bin
696c5429d61fbd2ca0ab925e38ca958076c80a75fef1503c9e07090f66691f4a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5253 5076 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000063ad.bin
65bcb2b43a09de386ad366e680a1f299f50f81241b54bf95e5c6d76c543f3902
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63AD 9716 bytes