Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b098553d1ece3bc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-14 21:11:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 37710bbe307c26a8f4ebe64a06dc5e25 SHA-1: c313ebda6ac587e3d939058b610cf0270a6a7c5d SHA-256: b098553d1ece3bc605d97f43d4857bbfc6911c229fdce4e07acf8fee20d81dc1
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes the same URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results and drive traffic to malicious destinations. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this 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/pify?keyword=indefinite+pronouns+subject+verb+agreement+worksheet+pdf
    • http://renilu.sydniessweetlife.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/639989fc334.pdf
    • http://files.larysspeakeasy.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814351/jalobaz_jaboxodejek.pdf
    • http://bikine.thewritersinkhorn.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775291/32023cc53a719.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5274/4347/files/47731692907.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5922/4480/files/90580725033.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1379/9066/files/63845870071.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0379/7913/files/furapojovidipufutixomi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2165/5464/files/movusutiru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9069/6597/files/arduino_bluetooth_projects.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5206/3137/files/evolution_of_human_brain.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9162/3077/files/bless_the_lord_oh_my_soul_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9812/1119/files/28855165039.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2129/5003/files/wijedinunobeza.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_off00006235.bin
2cf0f6ec36c9b5d128e6f43a9d2aea0c65812aef196b535b19a0fbb9b75d821a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6235 5904 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000763b.bin
60229e44e38d73bd012922c415f6020da4f45e223c33f0dc3e2df2d2318586cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x763B 10064 bytes