Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b667188cb48446d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-25 17:48:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 326696bac6038e31629abeee79c12dad SHA-1: c13c0249e3013b201b6332ec103d2cad20a73591 SHA-256: b667188cb48446d0ee75996d93e85b6bef72da0cdd85def9abadd54e3bb9c957
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to known malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text referencing a 'spreadsheet app for ios' and the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering lure. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify, likely as part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious 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.cc/pify?keyword=spreadsheet+app+for+ios+9.+3.+5
    • http://lawixafo.ikhlastours.co.nz/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303093/9422080.pdf
    • http://files.simple69.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408930/8489a210.pdf
    • http://files.poolebobbinlace.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874254/1b72efd888150.pdf
    • http://files.ayapromo.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070500/505655.pdf
    • http://files.busterbledsoeband.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454286/5326988.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0008/6180/files/jitibanejadarebaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3425/5258/files/23468607483.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3427/0117/files/aging_as_a_social_process.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4763/3575/files/interior_furniture_design_catalogue.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8701/0715/files/dobevukobonital.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9941/3925/files/sogizisurilume.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2703/7336/files/10th_tamil_sura_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6318/9412/files/21271757690.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1657/5383/files/massey_harris_22.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1070/3010/files/29483353874.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3683/5993/files/android_input_type.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_off00006473.bin
d457166a0c19cb800849a3aba76dfd9bae4839b7b4be4874304053ea88ee0228
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6473 5676 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000077be.bin
bc3b8ae0ca71e0496c8737008a0a60083aef8db37b69f28733fa544bfe541acc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77BE 10000 bytes