Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92baab16069e0c27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-09-01 23:45:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 282bfad16d1d7be89f13559dcb037f7c SHA-1: 9b413566ec2b14cf791a9d862c6ec241b624500d SHA-256: 92baab16069e0c2752fa698e371cf68a7571c611fe73dadd285c4182baee988a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that leads to the malicious redirector, suggesting a lure to a malicious site.

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.me/wix?keyword=the+notebook+movie+songs
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8158/1209/files/git_commit_untracked_files.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8107/8686/files/legafegireluxapisagax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3805/6354/files/79965015193.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4532/8808/files/datevagafowebonari.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9769/4109/files/oscilloscope_file.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5622/6716/files/36601052811.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3018/4098/files/android_flash_player.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9739/1261/files/bar_graph_matplotlib.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63022f_4fa52e3715094bd788537ef7ec9d753f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ace02d_59e11ba325654b7fb400b423add8c1a0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2be2b8c580584df0ae00f4b5383ff0ce.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a382ee_eeb75b4365b041bebfa2a821af07aa50.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6972/5080/files/punonisokuwilazifav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1138/1147/files/crystal_critters_star_wars.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5859/2921/files/place_value_chart_worksheet_1st_grade.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006287.bin
b9136c504c48e074a3c3187931ca2ff5e165b0e01222f8985eee1a39d5a47c8c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6287 4760 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007291.bin
df62513722bb5987db1c101b67127d05d3b2a3e78ccce23a363ac7b4821b7ab5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7291 10480 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009652.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9652 4324 bytes