Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdef02f398c79703…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.5 KB Created: 2020-08-29 06:22:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e36addcfaa2dfd490088c1297c593552 SHA-1: 347691b82bc66f802ee3fb814cb57be979a0c95b SHA-256: cdef02f398c79703118e69459eb8bedceea6a0561c82729aa34239efedd3a8f8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to shopify.com domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'solving two step equations foldable', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high probability of malicious activity.

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/wix?keyword=solving+two+step+equations+foldable
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0978/5512/files/simibi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9368/0547/files/gomizinofubun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/3006/8630/files/active_learning_strategies.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2750/4024/files/40196299835.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2194/3463/files/gevosipufotilopu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5657/8212/files/68856165817.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/3065/5655/files/sowapanetag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0593/3730/files/nularexebefenifek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1557/5464/files/lugulabomeduweke.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4dbb0c6315ab470990b15fa186d3b1ef.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9a2c7ab771be4782bb82ef33e6564db6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_542a3a5babbd4b889e26299174a4c0fc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b89c70b201a54277b9c647a684dd0ca1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6dbcdaef125f4c728bf5d08a2e289b9d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9095/8749/files/bhojpuri_gana_video_mp4_new.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/8276/0601/files/49048896058.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6327/1833/files/47573873007.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_off000053d1.bin
284d28b2785478d313830068b43d214209495d05a49f6bc94ef79b72a992fdc6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53D1 5632 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000671b.bin
ecbc016ef3a60600e23b2fd4e694f4964870ec7fb09e77acfc7dbc284cc1d2eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x671B 10020 bytes