Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a944c3be9d6ae7f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-30 05:08:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 262158d1d5e96c358392cfc852d1084f SHA-1: 5e6d6601a0c1f0d3147a344252dc986b071d2219 SHA-256: a944c3be9d6ae7f479e6fcbf40561fa18eb593ccb0edff9fba5367795ad948c2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. This link is disguised as a search result for a sewing machine, indicating a lure to trick users into clicking. The PDF also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify, which is flagged as a link farm. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of the malicious redirector and the link farm strategy strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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.link/wix?keyword=singer+handy+stitch+sewing+machine+price
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6855/5415/files/11141678096.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1754/3588/files/arioso_piano_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6986/6141/files/mamiresogotuzomedodave.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2553/8973/files/lilokobegarubajawetu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7922/8833/files/application_loader_blackberry_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1399/5672/files/72885549489.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8900/2653/files/bunapum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1523/2923/files/9102503554.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0147/8300/files/55770839724.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9390/0958/files/referencias_bibliograficas_apa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2820/0096/files/alfabeto_hebreo_moderno.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/286fb8_a302eac779ff41e09b12d030577d7b2d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/73c254_ddfae765ced849c6817c8a66ec352c35.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_off000065ad.bin
f1e8c663e06a38a7f15f73ab2aa575db0b7792f40736baf6a9dbc7551fab642a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65AD 5432 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007802.bin
a65a2d19ab904d756d91ab6230b6d25fa3366620169fa8a76fcab59c23044897
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7802 10104 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009a7f.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A7F 4324 bytes