Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f80b3304bd587cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.1 KB Created: 2020-08-18 15:11:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1b3d3ddff16352c38c658177ff95e7df SHA-1: 0f3f9dffc09863572fd085f753297e28d93aefa3 SHA-256: 9f80b3304bd587cb27bd69cabab87fb51c14f4bd53179f3dd7ef45361ee41917
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body text is heavily obfuscated but contains the string "Qualitative case study pdf" and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking through to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=qualitative+case+study+pdf
    • http://files.moriahicephotography.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695741/fimewudopiduge-fixemoxizomuj-rikoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8347/2802/files/tolivoruxojuse.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8972/9438/files/wowoputisatemebibuwamemu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6916/1110/files/9002504981.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3397/6223/files/fagufuratome.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6914/4230/files/werofimivatafe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9476/0862/files/wuwuvuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2742/1608/files/manorama_yearbook_2020_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1817/4120/files/kovutipev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9092/8026/files/24196923656.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/4249/1816/files/how_to_reduce_file_size_acrobat_reader_dc_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2405/1358/files/romeo_and_juliet_themes_worksheet.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_off00005b5f.bin
3e24765c964554081de060750f76efc70c9101f69026c0f5f2574c7626f193ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B5F 5276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d73.bin
b4f1315cee1a25ee84f35d8365475a6e2f7da8591429981f05f8a623652d3281
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D73 10128 bytes