Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f730c6c93ef6a488…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-06 09:25:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e33e39fb0bd3daff0273a7a485472f95 SHA-1: 7f657fb1a969cc776703f7e963c775809f6a6a0b SHA-256: f730c6c93ef6a4880f23fbeb933cdebd621cda445d1a0584604ad97586b0be37
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a redirector service, which is a common technique for delivering malicious payloads. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL as the malicious link, suggesting it's the primary lure. The PDF also contains a large number of links to external PDFs hosted on Shopify, likely an attempt to blend in with legitimate content or for SEO manipulation. The ML classifier strongly indicates 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.com/pify?keyword=bbm+syllabus+mysore+university+pdf
    • http://files.aedpresearch.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070367/6508767.pdf
    • http://files.whitmoreandwendy.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380850/b8b1d0a407f.pdf
    • http://files.masslibaz.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407388/befufir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6112/4008/files/center_text_markdown.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9948/0473/files/koviregelikozixejafojora.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6845/6102/files/55569992613.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3152/6557/files/apostles_creed_catholic.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7727/1716/files/orvis_catalog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2338/5247/files/dijolaref.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6523/6886/files/80731545342.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4548/5725/files/jupirodapedazi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9350/7739/files/ririf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4101/2382/files/38050081723.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9734/8514/files/ayatul_kursi_bangla_text.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9734/8514/files/ayatul_k

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006796.bin
864bfc48a8847a6e918c20972f475c695ad80425e29b23b90346abab5cff2428
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6796 5536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a5d.bin
647b5d545ecd69e8163beaef0a162ff1d26f091aa03ecd4c81abd6e2cb66d20a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A5D 10684 bytes