Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90a52a29cfc10d2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-24 18:27:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 216508addedabed79e094b1802535927 SHA-1: a70f6276e59642d9b4ec0b97fbecc407c90b41f4 SHA-256: 90a52a29cfc10d2a58660837be7c41bbc1d058e219f48b5e585ffc53eb3a48bd
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 malicious URL, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'sale of business contract template qld' and the malicious URL itself, suggesting a lure. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify, indicating a link farm strategy to obscure the final malicious destination.

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=sale+of+business+contract+template+qld
    • http://files.ioliteraryjournal.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379971/wewaweriv.pdf
    • http://files.tealpublishing.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874121/1ed36bb9aeda.pdf
    • http://pikufun.kellicarleneaskinspa.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738993/1900523.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/8661/1357/files/misovefowevarifenamil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/99237037604.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3269/9302/files/lagafajaniporokutavukebes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0781/1495/files/vanilla_deadmines_quests.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9547/3822/files/4451504270.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8205/4813/files/31173571257.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7706/5121/files/alabama_dhr_mandatory_reporting.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3192/8730/files/nugewurajuvedabogaxin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6026/4086/files/customer_centricity_peter_fader_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1561/7182/files/national_anthem_meaning_in_tamil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8873/1543/files/patient_sign_in_sheets.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_off00005dab.bin
c78566f41e705184e390ff8f7de891d2e01fb79469e024e248318f76e009cca9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DAB 5668 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070c8.bin
47c23a6b34eaa7cf25c1908a3410cdf5c8579f16f3b42b9ed0fb5c0c0d5ec739
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70C8 9872 bytes