Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8982717f59354bfd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.2 KB Created: 2020-09-04 23:18:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c2af3b4c2cf4545201d609a39cda2421 SHA-1: f21844cafe35f43c1c63697c0ea5c9c241ee163e SHA-256: 8982717f59354bfd006131e3f326cbbc65910b3894cd14ac4fc8481952bc3a27
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and references to other PDF files hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, suggesting the primary goal is to lure users to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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.link/wix?keyword=bikers+kental+2++openload
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5122/0120/files/gokigodapibogobitapo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1760/8090/files/arithmetic_and_geometric_sequence_formula.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5501/4297/files/73607528399.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1809/9615/files/nafta_certificate_of_origin_form_b232.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7007/0687/files/iseek_answerworks_english_runtime_is_it_malware.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7098/0247/files/activation._jar_for_talend.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2588/2518/files/shopping_vocabulary_exercises.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8846/1478/files/medical_assistant_skills_checklist.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2499/6758/files/tidipasilofedogigapujuvol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2937/2836/files/lyndon_school_solihull_ofsted_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/0433/0906/files/5157401696.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3469/8147/files/40316814178.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6222/9157/files/difference_between_accuracy_and_precision.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8935/3109/files/cellular_pathology_book.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000046e1.bin
58470606b5d765edfc2eb212895acb2fd71a4181f9b63a3d906369e42d3f2fdb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46E1 4988 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000057d8.bin
4e3a350d429bd8ae7ab2ebdaf80f226edb6742b38cd04f47518f2b0c536890b3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57D8 9964 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000079f2.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79F2 4324 bytes