Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9415325a1f9175da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

138.6 KB Created: 2020-08-25 02:58:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2d21e166a86593972bc01a8643bbb632 SHA-1: 86255d0d73e19f8982e4aa6f49424fbc92bd3ec1 SHA-256: 9415325a1f9175da90a372ca4e4ed00187e8ae56089c92a7ad7c3ee294a9ad1c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the redirector heuristic. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm used 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=traffic+report+i+84+oregon
    • http://files.bigdipperbeeco.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407635/5615500.pdf
    • http://files.silverlakebarroncounty.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695543/fubavixiruw.pdf
    • http://xogekiwom.bigfootcasefiles.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302921/8480099.pdf
    • http://files.frenchinosathome.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969573/demiramuzobuzomuze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2468/5975/files/guidelines_merriam_webster.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6393/4109/files/wudibibilekuzo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0970/9976/files/zifunagegexamadexesozulo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3538/5243/files/cambridge_advanced_learner_s_dictionary.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4982/6969/files/suvumupawezaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7822/1973/files/48355455600.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6939/9452/files/bpsk_code_waveform.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8862/5302/files/doremerazozipoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/7803/7159/files/fuvetafab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0940/1254/files/vowemowesim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4826/4089/files/mudelixisumanadaposere.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_off0001db7e.bin
84c2ef20395f1f9bc7223aef546761acb10f145e57c483b9d062062ea2830c13
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DB7E 5204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001ed42.bin
15bba1b2d7378feda84b4da075a4c3f3f5fe41e201289c56887f630c3d497c87
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1ED42 14832 bytes