Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88ceae150f2a2fe6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-25 01:18:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c2fdb6acc736dee033732f12df587e2f SHA-1: 0189ece92ce6de6a19e5f9011b8440e9127c648d SHA-256: 88ceae150f2a2fe69ee68e569522277c430f33c9c83afc931505fbedab808105
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a search result, designed to trick the user into clicking it. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or redirection campaign.

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.com/pify?keyword=icse+full+form+ki
    • http://files.logcabinwa.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738971/disamevar.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8036/7780/files/zapejemi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6484/2657/files/bytecode_viewer_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5583/9392/files/58475318482.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/4455/3123/files/xokikokeverijizop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/38659434623.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8381/6359/files/9648215259.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2273/5767/files/56818434410.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3406/7615/files/conductors_and_insulators_examples.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2114/8061/files/bushcraft_kit_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7373/9675/files/4889967635.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_off00006646.bin
30fdb67521be2b740ada3010ee54ffb28a80aa888dcf0988fc1c7f7382559830
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6646 4816 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000768a.bin
8744569feec89e0f4a3946dd9f38ccafd326c70245cb28e75792092a7300e144
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x768A 10440 bytes