Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6328d9c589cae70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2020-09-03 04:51:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: de49956aec92a266fcc45fe8b301935e SHA-1: aafabdea4eaffd0c469f299e8f9ffca8e801a7f6 SHA-256: e6328d9c589cae70a4328f881744db8ef1fe8eb859e99eae854edc8563caa4dd
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF was flagged by a critical heuristic for linking to a known malicious redirector and for being part of a link farm. The document body contains the malicious URL and numerous other URLs hosted on Shopify, suggesting a tactic to distribute malicious links under the guise of legitimate-looking documents. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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/wix?keyword=english+speaking+learning+software+free
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/4186/6137/files/lutesigugit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3174/0066/files/greenhouse_effect_file.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2950/3908/files/segojuputusozipotadixov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9639/9269/files/b._com_2nd_year_syllabus_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3669/6999/files/xukezemojej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1410/2951/files/montreal_convention.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4872/9766/files/atkins_plan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7301/0850/files/aerodynamics_anderson.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3769/3851/files/achar_recipe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9794/7300/files/97843058238.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6972/5080/files/bozogobixofuduxovivenesis.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6290de_16b12e3aec69491baf456fc43d8bceb6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dabb7927e65f4899bdf36d9ed1eb8f3b.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_off000076d6.bin
df459b9c8661c15bcb2950ff364b0d07ccbc8a41e2c756c887b46768de707698
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76D6 5276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000088dd.bin
07f4e32fd8369431fc231829d45a0a0b8a697c162a040d8251fa2664523ac7c4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88DD 10328 bytes