Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4797d9a6bbfed7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.7 KB Created: 2020-08-13 02:44:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d31842b474ca45ff200e2987eebcefa4 SHA-1: 6fa134a7da4c26ffd44402c802880aebcf7fc463 SHA-256: c4797d9a6bbfed7b7e0d4fed220684dc045ee49e508b2df2062f3bd3d7d4b0b8
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as a PDF link farm. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the URL for the malicious redirector and several other URLs pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute content through a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.ru/pify?keyword=blague+de+toto+pdf+gratuit
    • http://rasimopi.sydneywippman.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406082/sugedep-kuwuwezun.pdf
    • http://files.thevolumeofthebookministries.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856700/nonexolofov.pdf
    • http://files.crossborneotour.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813846/xonajiposubaxevix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/70278744099.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6509/5845/files/fufutoborijug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8110/5575/files/35103151915.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1715/9335/files/komenej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2331/8683/files/abacus_maths_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6725/2641/files/reneredovubokeza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5863/4658/files/xugotebuxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8154/7424/files/jonakelivumano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8434/9591/files/thousand_miles_piano_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9411/3446/files/elliott_smith_miss_misery.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9474/6023/files/13698725283.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2269/4046/files/78467696530.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_off000054f5.bin
b11b4078908bad74cb061cff43ba4715392c5c30335ebe81ecb4e5315e65b0e8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54F5 5080 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006647.bin
b508b95b4c79e7705d3b3a66c19e404d9c9d2dcb3fcbe8ce6bb2b1a2d01dae78
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6647 12716 bytes