Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22ca811e5ebd83f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.2 KB Created: 2020-08-31 02:42:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: de4b5b6d9d47fe71ba3840febf066ac3 SHA-1: eb7a9bb41e50b970f24ee42b344c2fc35206f72b SHA-256: 22ca811e5ebd83f6f7097b5f358b5f6563de69e52857d2d928cc4a50faa588cb
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=lionbridge+capital+holdings+indeed, suggesting a lure related to job postings or financial opportunities. The presence of a large link farm, including benign Shopify links, indicates a potential SEO manipulation or phishing campaign aimed at driving traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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/wix?keyword=lionbridge+capital+holdings+indeed
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8451/2418/files/sirius_xmu_playlist.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2969/9482/files/jojigokixexafeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5959/3894/files/archicad_free_autodesk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8828/9694/files/25324943410.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3bca44_69b4cbd4b5964a78bb4485a57ac2ae03.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/191a6d_16255e02ac8546ae86aad616d3ebc864.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5cdb85e260694944968d6c7e18b42741.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/60933b_e4395215f06f4e13b34c0bed93b945c5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eaf48f_4b4f635443e6402b854e8022604ae57c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/accd1f_b2ac0336d35a4249a15b566192b48fe3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_19351ba1901849da88e26b143cfeac5e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33a16d_c3d3cd636ab947548e81c93152b749b1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1c88fd91eb284196bf4a88e69f2587c6.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_off0000449b.bin
117b490042bde82b3a86505817790b01a767bbb81fdabedb675040ee2b8c665b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x449B 5416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000056ee.bin
a6c17e7bd713609f5d90a191a7299c8a04b2f72534473d42ac692ca2a05440da
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x56EE 9732 bytes