Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85c90b0824f942db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2020-08-16 20:57:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 975f7a90d1e4c75990ead8628ec7da08 SHA-1: d7f091c6fd8aaf2ade2a685af58f5c07fec2d379 SHA-256: 85c90b0824f942db2fd612cc4ba6c377e0c37d387815fe30389c37950920a998
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded links that lead to known malicious redirector infrastructure, disguised with keywords related to payment summaries. The document body, though partially obfuscated, also contains the primary malicious URL. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, suggests a link farm used to obscure the true malicious destination. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=payment+summary+annual+report+due+date+2018
    • http://xezulisiv.vitalityintegrativecare.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384166/fb50a40.pdf
    • http://files.melodiamusicstudio.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739204/pasanemis.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4231/4152/files/applied_optics_and_optical_design.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/34530012154.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5309/5844/files/maruwixuxud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4441/3341/files/solulejoripelufofa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/2658/0375/files/7030113765.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3973/6487/files/97441605105.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nisej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6091/9461/files/73959204916.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2430/2759/files/wegorakonoruzonubizet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5032/0543/files/conte_cagliostro.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_off000074a3.bin
d702a6ad7c9994b8271a37c82e55a16ebf253ea89b2805631ed9d4e34860478e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74A3 5728 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008812.bin
a822f9360d64b80f5438c821d3db6bfadae0952b2421497f634615ecc4c8983a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8812 10408 bytes