Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce52331e8df3520d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-08-07 05:42:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e963f505a8fb3f0aa6750458fb6357a3 SHA-1: ed1c6b688039aaca30564ccb09b4388960351bbf SHA-256: ce52331e8df3520d390cf2521f480d05bbb241e672a94848a87d95b451375d36
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggered the redirector heuristic. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to distribute 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.com/pify?keyword=contexto+social+de+la+profesion+descargar+pdf
    • http://files.halfbakedrant.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871569/zolizunuwi-pamexoniperu-gijufiwumeso.pdf
    • http://files.drmldr.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813837/eb819529.pdf
    • http://files.perhappened.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164153/tekidimuvani_bafasajo_tetuvukoweni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7737/8972/files/tizirozedina.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0124/0985/files/65227310677.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4985/6669/files/oral_medicine_journal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2884/8538/files/52181079120.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0412/3557/files/94440016609.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1921/4756/files/80020605689.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8305/5782/files/45173362077.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5552/1700/files/mafibevapewefuvuwate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9713/7056/files/43671007554.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6500/6494/files/pibudagukugojorizipawob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0417/4233/files/ectomorph_workout.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3580/4319/files/99611574968.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7529/5640/files/aromatic_compounds_mcqs.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_off00006b79.bin
f7637cd4054ff4d3ee7fe52d0c6932e7a0f646d9c80e3d0ab7bad95b8045f56b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B79 5296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007d8f.bin
9cbe28b9cd70d76bafeca2415c29ff669f61c2a7d4657651dc6b945b4121980c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D8F 10640 bytes