Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5784807ba1e8090…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.5 KB Created: 2020-08-05 10:00:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 28731fe3dd258785f4ecf2225a45541e SHA-1: 59046a87958674e1cabd88211486cc2bd76bbe38 SHA-256: b5784807ba1e80905df1e41b0d1c453c7704f15a2bfbc50b95bb6ba29d6132af
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=auxiliary+verb+worksheets+pdf'. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt disguised as educational content. 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=auxiliary+verb+worksheets+pdf
    • http://files.cassandracyril.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740148/7f0a1bc.pdf
    • http://jezeb.unikzhi.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383544/gaxijifunalivano.pdf
    • http://files.garyscocktailmuddlers.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776402/3f8f83249f9f6.pdf
    • http://files.doulaolympia.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607683/2202027.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2449/6286/files/gekuforupobataluzikobewa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0512/4516/files/43228337302.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/14981909947.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7281/4245/files/25853772508.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1639/4648/files/bukesamafo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9255/7467/files/sikini.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zorugeligix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7973/8278/files/43736269803.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2452/1128/files/35114781851.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8642/9861/files/99902224807.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9948/8410/files/58624413319.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6966/1589/files/8150363169.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7394/6275/files/97402353352.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_off00005bbd.bin
0b94889f48b1cd32ec5258e681edf0666d761b96a28282767e1275db57dcea04
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BBD 5644 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f01.bin
ab41efe594ea81bf39edc46d6c6cbef3656e76d40c7f0bb487b2189320b78435
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F01 9964 bytes