Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1d06cf56d5cb629…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-09-11 09:27:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ec8aabd55e0d7b0ce84c8874caf8f5c1 SHA-1: e128880f1c8ae976bd290947551abadeefcc5b06 SHA-256: c1d06cf56d5cb6291ae45401f7101efbee3803ebc8a5d7e230a6a07f4eae86e6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, which is designed to lure users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Holiday extras picture competition answers', suggesting a social engineering pretext. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to improve search engine ranking for malicious content, a common tactic in SEO poisoning attacks.

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.me/wix?keyword=holiday+extras+picture+competition+answers
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/4494/0445/files/dremel_16_scroll_saw_model_1672_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6025/7177/files/mojabufibibowowaduvolebe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7525/4937/files/30983748448.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8141/4296/files/sezeviputavofepi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8606/2495/files/vesow.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fe1739cbfa754c66bc5e8a198cbac5d5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cc03df_e6a0b6d86dcd4b759f1f85f7bfd13f1e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ef7b09_c7d298acef7d4ebeb928f37a15936963.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b4a829_dbbeb4fcedc34fb4ad9fef1d92eba4d4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c068f8_ad889b94b1fa496e8e04b2fb3bebf1b1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0406/0071/files/funcion_de_los_alveolos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2405/4429/files/fozarexofebem.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_off000064a3.bin
2b53df5eaa5074957068c58766a1e80a06d300459d00fc5d6c63a0556d83f4e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64A3 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007722.bin
4cce67d0003e99105e20135617b3e3ebdf8a6506f8ef8415442a9ad5a6c743b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7722 10856 bytes