Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f508e28f9644e591…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-20 08:33:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ee4b38838c70809ced9f48cf3a791ad2 SHA-1: d4c2eb51a2e90736b07903bd310dae790064f22f SHA-256: f508e28f9644e5915c06e320554cacfb33c0f1e44db96042afb614dd93e8997f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a prominent link that redirects to a malicious domain, disguised with a keyword relevant to server appliances. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a malicious redirector URL supports this. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of specific execution behaviors.

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=vcenter+server+appliance+6.+5
    • http://texej.frufruandfeathers.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874431/lubawulop_gulal_vabof_debobosem.pdf
    • http://files.lincolnlandemmaus.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437655/wetosidebulebor.pdf
    • http://kafori.adulis.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453850/1062408.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1609/2828/files/25160458675.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6989/8914/files/xonokewifiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7508/4193/files/82483011388.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4171/0499/files/biomathematics_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1990/9794/files/ladaxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1241/5897/files/97491808840.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5430/9280/files/10121730862.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1858/3192/files/dopiwa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2697/0786/files/35033778856.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0708/0608/files/77638319912.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_off0000602a.bin
58d6878f7fc78b6c42206b573b999a5241abab0f601e9632cd4f770facc9c52d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x602A 5264 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007222.bin
13e52644138b9f8aec7898625265dc1a491e84643ec73fb7f6e128b85e37e960
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7222 13152 bytes