Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d75a1aaa0679f7ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.3 KB Created: 2020-07-30 17:23:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e9a519488dcc9688d58bdbe8cfb5b224 SHA-1: 57327697a156a79732b62667c94058a8ece5e0da SHA-256: d75a1aaa0679f7ba31bb30370378c02e3f76ade51d50881b704f87afa85d6877
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain keywords related to development tutorials, suggesting a lure. The presence of multiple external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a potential link farm or SEO manipulation tactic 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=google+android+development+tutorial+pdf
    • http://files.bryanbotterill.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856415/dfd00.pdf
    • http://files.lakesidelabradors.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739778/12e86f.pdf
    • http://files.interdisciplinaryexchanges.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453559/bc4a72e97481.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0652/4583/files/15153476193.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8812/4830/files/jolibakogel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2718/4281/files/wojulunu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7895/8758/files/bebetapijeresik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/70339383958.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1050/6404/files/gizag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8206/3777/files/76838977042.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7634/4225/files/27815726962.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9032/2335/files/lokefixir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5892/9570/files/47892676377.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3140/3423/files/13416671519.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/703393839

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009e6c.bin
da6abd3abbda96f838f288e55a213fda5de23e8c5ff19624aae37949b058f5f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E6C 5156 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000afef.bin
38f86f257d7917be80f4fb9426c01de142df82abdd120c5756798d438ac53142
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFEF 10516 bytes