Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 975ffa767e5853b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.3 KB Created: 2020-08-05 02:42:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eefbeb680f03de82ab37cb5658fced30 SHA-1: 3ae27819a9bec15bc79d4e9978c4d54f41c66dd4 SHA-256: 975ffa767e5853b5d46083d022a385411783bff4ebb29d1f5750e3290e2beae4
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Business writing pdf free download' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure for users seeking free content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent.

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.ru/pify?keyword=business+writing+pdf+free+download
    • http://files.selectroses.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739456/ec2b6.pdf
    • http://files.govmation.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814056/kaxir_sejuvipu_titokixozumip_pewovuleremu.pdf
    • http://files.orlandohomeinspectionservices.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437937/farupajamamonababu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6105/9482/files/zoditituroxule.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6406/5174/files/sujef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0234/files/gimon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8819/1394/files/niviligodogogateraw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4920/5405/files/51475090405.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6032/0663/files/tovuguvemarapeduja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9286/9281/files/20741467607.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8572/5850/files/dario_fo_accidental_death_of_an_anarchist.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9242/5384/files/tifewux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7354/9974/files/85473147327.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2626/7806/files/38940964170.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_off0000788c.bin
bf0c1b2c29eb9e76061a9db21c619f363ff7ded50d20994ee4e593588e9e79a9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x788C 5232 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008a76.bin
70b1dfc82544033bff1ab22f3e046eb7e268bc53418c858f3bf04d90b96fece0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A76 10348 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000adce.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADCE 4324 bytes