Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92090b33972b0f76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.7 KB Created: 2020-08-01 10:22:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e6d069d6848165341b27a62d9207f390 SHA-1: 494dd4d57559f06eebdb914bd49ecc60cb0f62d5 SHA-256: 92090b33972b0f76b79195b350f15dbfb3877799f567f30b07078003e4f2f0a1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a redirector service, which in turn points to a "link farm" of other PDFs hosted on Shopify. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to downloading a specific textbook, suggesting a lure to trick users into downloading further content. The primary malicious indicator is the PDF redirector link, which is designed to lead users to potentially harmful 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.com/pify?keyword=griffiths+electrodynamics+4th+edition+pdf+download
    • http://files.littleladyo.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969004/furopigolijur.pdf
    • http://files.fvapbotb.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695354/6868215.pdf
    • http://files.houstonhighschoolptso.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398052/79434e289cba3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4043/9446/files/xedujixe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8789/6488/files/43165881875.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6377/9240/files/84609164568.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2118/9788/files/38677205522.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6714/6397/files/lajerutuda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8003/1135/files/pupevefinogesif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8683/2035/files/27258958324.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3093/6733/files/duvufivukira.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7234/6526/files/zosusirenexojasinabezi.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_off0000490d.bin
bd735b667bab73266998271daf9959c9f8ba11bb461f687add630b63286bb406
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x490D 5708 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005c6f.bin
08459fe58ab3f2f4e5c7050725bf91122d54ceee1e5b8b24db9958191b0f7f50
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C6F 9792 bytes