Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce996339bd89c0dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.5 KB Created: 2020-08-07 17:38:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e6f5dfb1c9f391e041acd9a66185e8a8 SHA-1: 298252febeafe351801b3010f2aafa9898771d7f SHA-256: ce996339bd89c0ddb8d1b4fe743fa30d815d1f7b037750306b6a614f491a915f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious IOC is a redirector URL that appears to be part of a lure campaign, disguised as an 'Avon philippines brochure'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other benign-looking Shopify URLs, suggesting a deceptive content strategy. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector is sufficient evidence of a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

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=avon+philippines+brochure+august+2020+pdf
    • http://files.domaplasma.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164534/gifuwubumip.pdf
    • http://files.mkmea.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695714/9cb1bc394.pdf
    • http://files.bombexnovelties.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740337/b7a286225d93f25.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7937/6798/files/93726453175.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5689/0013/files/nigupawufigebizesewi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/49221060197.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9805/4558/files/tenia_hymenolepis_nana.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7513/2824/files/mabufalikiburiwusevanez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/63529720688.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6557/1493/files/wagivilotikikenixaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/31670740491.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/fokukivovasogu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9899/5864/files/matplotlib_pie_chart.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8904/3358/files/vojogidasedunoforijujopix.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_off00005318.bin
388cb64181ad1cc81949bd5856f43375e49d4eec2965810471d08e277517d104
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5318 5880 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000671b.bin
60741767136f9e680dde45d1c4aa1142fca4fcf9217aa72de9a369a0eda05c18
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x671B 10020 bytes