Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e171386ce84d02db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-19 16:51:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0cea3b601ecb2830ae378e3f05de8f4c SHA-1: 854430feb105f120a69d3594d09fc76e65286ffa SHA-256: e171386ce84d02dbe98038f45aa9a8432793c741dbf64eb16bd19494d3e6c034
152 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 document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Annals of surgical case reports impact factor' and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious site disguised as an academic resource. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.ru/pify?keyword=annals+of+surgical+case+reports+impact+factor
    • http://fekor.spectrumautorefinishing.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/tafada_tivebi_puzezeja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6749/8911/files/78665578143.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8555/2030/files/reformas_borbonicas_en_el_peru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/27392185694.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5249/1159/files/talasaruxufabezugerubejug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1403/6376/files/electronically_sign_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2692/2146/files/fopefapabofozeta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0485/3402/files/novej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1119/4525/files/tinidexubewexa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0766/2504/files/entenda_o_autismo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4749/4567/files/weight_gurus_scale.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/6668/3545/files/microsoft_access_database_sample.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7591/0294/files/netflix_app_windows_10_offline.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8946/0376/files/classification_of_azo_dyes.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_off00005ea9.bin
31b53d4e818a78562b54d66a98db3fd54a1270ad8cd47adb99c47a20a349e3a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EA9 5324 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070aa.bin
e2b27b2bd48a7f59b0e71c505fd7ebf34a0edfe9a03d9b9851710d02e1dc9884
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70AA 10100 bytes