Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47475afdf3826de9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.4 KB Created: 2020-09-07 16:03:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f7cd79d2943c53f3fc15426ac782c71c SHA-1: 18f03e42e4727a579e2df756cfa714b4adecea2d SHA-256: 47475afdf3826de9d46ab790150de3904799771bd5170493c3fb6f5bc7b40e82
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link disguised as 'reading comprehension worksheets pdf 2nd grade' that redirects to a malicious URL. This suggests a social engineering attack aiming to trick users into visiting a potentially harmful site. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a redirector link confirms malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of specific payload delivery mechanisms.

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.me/wix?keyword=reading+comprehension+worksheets+pdf+2nd+grade
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4651/0504/files/49095151465.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/37237973095.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/2154/8958/files/disputing_credit_report_credit_karma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3025/6536/files/rovugabavuxizi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8828/9694/files/81541870444.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0789d5_e2c7360a5d8143399a25956043e61647.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0047a4_9c6086e7adf34305a0234ba6f2993454.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7c38f64e06c6438f9b7e65ccef2aafa4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3668/7008/files/tipping_point_ips_configuration_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7004/3813/files/90878021759.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7973/8278/files/13881826874.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0505/0008/files/there_are_eight_characteristics_of_information_literacy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4225/7561/files/house_rules_for_tenants.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off0000a976.bin
6f7b8671c9a9b7413ffa75d70d3dcf18a7882fcd230ba7d36e0c67c7a4247882
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xA976 17908 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off0000733d.bin
2ee3c6a465e33c8554c6cf380c6618e383d7e29947582d1519a6ad10d6ef3fdf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x733D 5832 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000870d.bin
f4642707184b27534c8d5efdb11aa0fb237d926d4c37dfd6fd7ec5fb057d543f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x870D 10036 bytes