Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 474e9702ef8062e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.5 KB Created: 2020-08-29 15:28:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f4f21115bfe9444666a44e1764f9b639 SHA-1: ebeb07a7a14e15ceec46fc02cb4e9d965b348f07 SHA-256: 474e9702ef8062e92f123b0498c4febebb8decfb86a9f9ebecbd1ae71a0d3a13
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggered the heuristic. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify, suggests a link farm or content distribution strategy, with at least one URL identified as a malicious redirector.

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/wix?keyword=definicion+de+estres+oms+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6196/8025/files/75470819977.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2723/2918/files/80856274188.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7683/7785/files/pilifirifud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8189/9944/files/bugusetujuzixilivojeren.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9957/7756/files/anemia_aplasica_pediatria.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7993/3862/files/crash_bandicoot_psx_rom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1488/8360/files/machiavelli_the_prince.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3383/7224/files/no_choirboy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2796/9686/files/35765088829.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9257/3336/files/dinerixojazorela.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1229d99cadd74615a225a1d4375d81ec.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a917695fcc12412e834d052dc22b206c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fdf5f146ca094003854c4e8304bba7de.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
font_00_sfnt_off000083da.bin
1a2475b301d31b432006508b6a395cffd5365ccab8fe728ec03c72885fac5e35
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83DA 5056 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000094fd.bin
bc5927c93a953b34cae6358a548ae525ba7125fd8e3677ae3165ce3ee991bcf6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x94FD 11300 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b9fe.bin
541fa2b6826b0add99b7d5a173ef1e6a5567607b5192f75b810eb17d6a563501
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9FE 16204 bytes