Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0a77c50091568d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-09-01 10:11:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 183192dd1d51e34924c0ae264cbd76e7 SHA-1: 88eb619fcff8ccb42d43db8cc869dfa1fe776d52 SHA-256: b0a77c50091568d1bde69943b8342aa69c510ab79b556c31b4657e913e538f5e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a report, which is a common lure. The presence of numerous external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the malicious redirector or to appear more legitimate. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=marketing+team+structures+report+2017
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0892/5600/files/92140326776.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5641/4363/files/worksheets_of_present_indefinite_tense.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pafinekumukomotutawewokab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6277/9295/files/gta_5_car_cheats_pc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9240/1573/files/linear_function_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9956/9832/files/jozudowodag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0097/8853/files/84940562709.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7015/2088/files/pimsleur_spanish_1_reading_booklet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4365/1741/files/i_am_not_spock.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4081/5774/files/48126880216.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9282/8579/files/19582100708.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9494/8517/files/29320932328.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8978/8070/files/bangladesh_passport_online_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5253/8787/files/11872619423.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_off00006024.bin
25cb0565d85ceb9516a7ab9c25920f4bf2fa4ffad9791b81c763c5e30211b547
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6024 5696 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007398.bin
f017ee90068ffdf1e2c19b7c4a74ca680fd3bf5106770f33f51f39629b854e2d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7398 10460 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009728.bin
ea00d0f02435cd95fa32783dc1980057750e536ec6ebc27e232226f72ea1eb1f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9728 16756 bytes