Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8e3688b61832298…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.0 KB Created: 2020-08-19 17:51:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a07447073d2214ca7ebda61bf515c16d SHA-1: 45f663900fade344a6951ff3e167178d41f18386 SHA-256: d8e3688b61832298568650224da7fc14ac04d23430ba1a86a1c18e4dfa373720
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. This redirector is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text and the malicious URL, indicating an attempt to trick users into clicking through to a harmful site, likely for credential harvesting or malware delivery.

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.cc/pify?keyword=2018+fantasy+football+cheat+sheet+cbs+sports
    • http://lusaxu.paulmanningproductions.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738730/bopajideseje.pdf
    • http://files.haysvillehornets.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483097/f046c.pdf
    • http://files.epidesignlab.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813922/xizisutixesul-saxovirepawozaw-sarapiwidotenaz.pdf
    • http://files.sethallenyoungphd.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131436991/8021925.pdf
    • http://files.plateauenglish.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775441/6832540.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1329/9620/files/30253004574.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1385/5643/files/induction_motor_working_principle.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3164/9689/files/91482891564.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3126/3394/files/17866759505.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/0479/2729/files/barron_s_gre_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7188/0870/files/13373374029.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9954/6009/files/98638800536.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4892/6364/files/71713086638.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/6513/9354/files/31327696932.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4256/9383/files/jofotudekanujus.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000068c5.bin
0f350095b7463d0fb68dfa0a2895ffb261a87b69ff94dea68e6c64558136b36d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68C5 5768 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c62.bin
61195427ac998b3f431f33e7f45394c7c399639f9710022e20e14429a6a06880
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C62 10128 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009f5b.bin
542462964dc9b2bcd3f85a6e2c205cebd8451fcfe86522e0aac0b87029e3f0c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F5B 16708 bytes