Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f19b9b1191318007…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-07 06:21:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bd27bf35da4f5f65343ce02a82589c49 SHA-1: 3ec073dbe5f4d788719f1bc2413c752d68e045d2 SHA-256: f19b9b119131800743ecb4378d5e09c075e9f7395870b383b8eb512525246e98
150 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 of which point to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic designed to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector URL is a high-confidence indicator of malicious intent.

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.ru/pify?keyword=upload+pdf+to+kindle+cloud
    • http://files.sfbaytherapist.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969434/zabobufejo.pdf
    • http://files.friendsofkirkleyhall.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380467/gotitakivatuw.pdf
    • http://files.oxfordleamingtonclinic.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814169/pasemiwavorivon.pdf
    • http://files.forestparkcorpcenter.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069950/2009564.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8475/0743/files/cch_ct_ghp.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7208/6423/files/foxasamodakuxeterupal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1648/7065/files/zejopotuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1604/5222/files/vadubojawijimelibisipani.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6717/9162/files/understandable_statistics_12th_edition_brase.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1713/2456/files/zirebikevi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1142/3912/files/xanizuvogowimurinabita.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4296/3613/files/west_end_games_star_wars.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7451/8180/files/fumusa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7497/7945/files/c_program_design_for_engineers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4073/3341/files/76174791403.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1769/9477/files/73775057763.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_off000061f4.bin
cfe203e5d5f54fd50eacdcf62668fb9bfca7424d84fae79c7a18633b73c25f07
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61F4 4928 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072dd.bin
1e1823de86f5a094dfb0137391bd8f4b550c40b8c6bfa7b0672b445971443730
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72DD 10532 bytes