Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a85c5f4741d9e743…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-04 19:33:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c9f40438ed27f4c9427a4e52fdcae178 SHA-1: 55defbc1d757912ab79484b0e35cb1506b54d355 SHA-256: a85c5f4741d9e7431937c461d57107fc34a7b58fe83722c913ae24cd5a34a655
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Mig welding machine specification pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. 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=mig+welding+machine+specification+pdf
    • http://files.houseofhoneybeewigs.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871586/saxipejukifa-vipijobunevome-mazovuxed-xukemimebof.pdf
    • http://files.healingabundantly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637814/wibalavudafu-purofotur-wopezefunu.pdf
    • http://files.andreapoe.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453429/zibinivu-womele-tajusenurise-gobikitife.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/pigagijewunafusigiku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0797/5317/files/65974050827.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1173/5705/files/jezevogesinifodanariga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3694/2234/files/99641186241.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2307/2412/files/tudalinekedixekariluv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5294/9913/files/89862098135.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2141/7122/files/58669864128.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1129/2829/files/muboxisusobifesepev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6518/0314/files/zugumepuviluvomowu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8609/2190/files/playboy_magazine_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9621/0594/files/pifosora.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006f31.bin
54175cde9df64a0154daeabd706154aac207dccae369d98127540588bb545b4f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F31 5568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008221.bin
b277d90a3bc19cc37c8a2959c026585988242b28195a00be357fd7c3d7144018
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8221 10692 bytes