Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab5f290c0252acdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-09-01 14:03:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 11404a44e21bc96ce2855dd29cf65606 SHA-1: d8da7cf5f98555113853d698ea80786530cffc4c SHA-256: ab5f290c0252acdc2c1f1e6a5c446dc508bb5d9877652a9af8e1c4b4f4b95174
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded URLs that point to a known malicious redirector, indicating an attempt to lead the user to a harmful site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URLs, reinforcing the malicious intent. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious PDF.

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.cc/wix?keyword=alimentos+ricos+en+gluten+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7204/2661/files/jusanuzatokawa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7929/5383/files/girores.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2945/5271/files/no_mans_sky_recipes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6827/6384/files/lanage.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9f1b9f5a88e84d1e847c33a712fe93b2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fe087dee0ac440b78ff6ddd6c68974aa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/90423f_a41fa735e1de4a4683e9a6f25b094ac6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c3f59f_ccd4f8cb065e4edaa26c2ab185f24588.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1a89c8_215e2e7f0c0341c3acd3c4340ffd772f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ac72e0_17756dcb25034fd88e4e0ed026fd0fdc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3dd68e_10899f7c4f3c454eb03090e1c80e5d60.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_898694c2f8824a628fe9f7a932fa1b0e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_496e9f9139094dce861f9513f71536a0.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_off0000742f.bin
1855dcbe145d6299aa6a56cbe8c96ccb6c8aa554f89f97d9b9b3f8e7bc7df2fe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x742F 5252 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000085fe.bin
51e7961b6ef1da6c8dc4853f8271d6606430ddc018e6c4416494f13d16183079
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85FE 11524 bytes