Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 411c1e3a8af3c417…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 23:50:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f04ffef0b1a21c5e550d38d0f2dd5886 SHA-1: ad3ca0ae9f1299ccda49456879fa8f254e4f141e SHA-256: 411c1e3a8af3c417e6d9116a055df1a3e429e8760c0bad9285caf5f14ed674fa
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggered the redirector heuristic. The presence of numerous other links to Shopify-hosted PDFs suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious content.

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.club/wix?keyword=yaesu+ftdx+1200
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8008/9760/files/50134550394.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7201/1931/files/95298300261.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6370/4729/files/tapinukevexerogoxol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3024/8600/files/bivodugor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7400/2837/files/27630587439.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0426/2561/files/vepoxaxabuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1455/9656/files/xesugemabixasixumifipurud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0083/9842/files/vifabugimobatu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2177/0656/files/xajegijomup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3867/7924/files/lupevujudixesobok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0549/2904/files/axis_mutual_fund_transmission_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8898/6783/files/zanabukun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4711/6197/files/meleliw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3061/8011/files/13702117450.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/35543542817.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0791/7729/files/sajadesikebase.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_off00006530.bin
7a055d86aec780f4270ab82c382ec75bb6ba380e5aa35ccb748ad538be41aef6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6530 5128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000076b9.bin
9fa1ddddfcae9958880d65fe5a55a468687527268997dc49c747dbfe0e854db1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76B9 13976 bytes