Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7d2668b445ef776…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.9 KB Created: 2020-08-19 03:38:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 31825e0c12e9ccabd2ce617e479505cd SHA-1: 36a4b79e0a04a7ddea906da7a088e2a92fe8a9e7 SHA-256: e7d2668b445ef776ad5fc915be3c811a61392affe2a5e387b2fcea2200e88cbf
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and document title, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious redirector attack pattern.

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=library+of+congress+political+cartoon+analysis+worksheet
    • http://files.agentonthebeach.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410158/627985.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/muxolalinurijelibabozafod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6934/8763/files/bubelepirifokoga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2548/9320/files/22167573194.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/0455/9261/files/49565957967.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4576/3744/files/nofudaguxutilojo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9431/9009/files/rumixejalu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/6615/0303/files/zafejuveweripofo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8371/7015/files/44974709969.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4064/8861/files/alchemist_code_rerolling_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5712/7336/files/bijiramojopivawa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3098/6400/files/aurelio_s_pizza_menu.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_off00007a1b.bin
adc19c1ad9ccefdc3b60c110b6a32ddda31ef4d75e683626758e7f39bca4621c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A1B 5404 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008c83.bin
7a482223f696209c28fde7c831d40729d68cb80fec021ea2334a2b6373779153
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C83 10492 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b06e.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB06E 4324 bytes