Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7599ebff989bfdb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-08-14 00:40:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ce25b0a7c4ad6757eb2fa832c61df082 SHA-1: 6e78314ee4ebb9f2d94e1da30f1f4663d1c8edb7 SHA-256: a7599ebff989bfdbc43c007cc0b8c710f1cefd9ee25ba5f6b06a5b8da0bfbf37
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a malicious redirector URL, indicating an attempt to direct users to malicious content. The document body, though obfuscated, includes the malicious URL and a keyword related to Android development, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify, points towards a link farm SEO strategy to obscure the ultimate 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=splash+screen+image+not+showing+android
    • http://xavidaf.bringingtherapyhome.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163729/nagavewipojo_vulat.pdf
    • http://fememoro.waypentecostalchurch.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437792/xabitin.pdf
    • http://wodalini.iginermiranda.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482975/jiverenotivebu-deperusizopuj-denapilobus.pdf
    • http://files.mattrobinsonphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637056/xixure.pdf
    • http://files.chrishenkaline.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407315/6436164.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3264/1689/files/2380813882.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9772/2785/files/lajupawezolire.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9972/4702/files/aqa_a_level_biology_revision.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3758/files/addams_family_musical_script.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8087/4139/files/76316921082.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1904/1954/files/sample_obituary_for_mother.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6808/7701/files/32987708591.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3417/1800/files/93399935274.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4947/4453/files/81320640410.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_off000066e7.bin
517994df6ee66d79959c464dfc1c63b4ae3925ea35dcf49fa8a055bc1ea414c3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66E7 5680 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a08.bin
2d1c02d7faeb7dad5af5d103f135926a0d4fd4e69f3a7da8959d46cf8e88466d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A08 3120 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000868b.bin
c92098219ea0f0fcf8b44d909217cd6e710c61195618eab968972bda2cbf3b83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x868B 12756 bytes