Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b191c0d4038a1f01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.1 KB Created: 2020-08-07 05:48:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d6e0c97ba8ef9ff12b66643d7d5e4122 SHA-1: a11879a49f202175adb62bb35b1818dd52659657 SHA-256: b191c0d4038a1f01847b928df1c31609ad4ad5e4ae76bf299fd658b5620930e8
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to external content.

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.com/pify?keyword=hormonio+antidiuretico+adh+pdf
    • http://files.allarounddecking.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681560/0c3cb4.pdf
    • http://files.tyannzealdesigns.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815009/puruvix.pdf
    • http://files.sayrevillesquad.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164273/fogamolopefex.pdf
    • http://files.david-arnebeck.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437295/62dd8be76e4f.pdf
    • http://files.nancymaccreery.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740589/fb76d9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3364/7525/files/74181847859.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1570/8580/files/fejumowojoxosunijaruriwu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8957/6601/files/17992356533.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9664/6556/files/3183343314.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6574/5309/files/19035783881.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3531/9702/files/kepewozukoxolezuxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1914/0252/files/curso_arquitectura_de_computadoras.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7426/4993/files/putuwusur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1673/9222/files/50521253474.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_off0000826f.bin
34fd743afdd4cfa1f23b3be4a813a9abc41b51b91cc02ea1bfe78ab4660150d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x826F 5148 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000093c5.bin
e2626d0f2da6eb7add38aeea530c83f9d507d0d063c637af77d94cd4674be069
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93C5 10408 bytes