Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1005bd24875fb12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.4 KB Created: 2020-08-08 20:15:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 989db1b84dfaff8a6735a07bc5a75099 SHA-1: 81053a2de6b57a6068c3f49b364bcd8f4b72dbd4 SHA-256: d1005bd24875fb126d4ac0ec1dea6048a8716a882ec35f881ddcdd2e63a05ad1
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content, potentially for SEO poisoning or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=walden+two+pdf
    • http://files.kcfearfarm.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406537/pidopi.pdf
    • http://files.itisifairytales.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454304/2609505.pdf
    • http://files.andfairphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874284/db4f4ce83fe.pdf
    • http://files.barnes1ststepft.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681891/zosowadugug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3448/2587/files/dead_space_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30549310566.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3644/0726/files/vitazanipimigulelafefuga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/9764/9306/files/what_time_is_afternoon_and_evening.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3188/8035/files/nomilox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8260/3927/files/wonabetanuju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1701/1353/files/rikat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/34530012154.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4164/3928/files/29639940872.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6409/0006/files/95972157090.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9384/3356/files/pdf_convert_to_black_and_white.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0989/1742/files/69797996689.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/37638787324.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9469/5324/files/reactor_idle_cheats.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2032/8864/files/piwabadifa.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_off00009c8b.bin
225a7cbf5daf96a13dbda35277facbc20c1762682406ba5144e85a2529833075
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C8B 4868 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ad4b.bin
b5a7cce6d92eb4fb1db2e751efc14514cff1ed78efb59d87bdac602768b23823
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD4B 10756 bytes