Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4bd2d02fc3fe9ea4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 05:32:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 07cc219b00cec4706c442bb7033aa3d3 SHA-1: ae568bc5f5b7bef8b886547e5095c73a8bc7ce8f SHA-256: 4bd2d02fc3fe9ea4d09c1dc4a774d755b24d79c3efaea9f38a031317b6906a45
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document contains a mass external link farm, with the primary URL pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and appears to be a lure for users interested in Suzuki violin books. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure itself is indicative of SEO poisoning or link farm tactics.

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.cc/wix?keyword=suzuki+violin+book+4+table+of+contents
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5596/4569/files/60380597192.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2017/3983/files/pdf_ethnography_of_communication.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9318/1081/files/6343292265.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3c887b865a5f4f738340d14dd2f2c369.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fd3290_2c7f5b2fd53d4909a28c237e5b81386a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ed64d2_d20bbee716044e80a5077145ce55272a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_07c683f01f4c44509e102f304d117095.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/238140_9f0a444fd597441f86cb7fd3902102c0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cd79e3_1bd9b1df69db4e6ca3005ffb31792641.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/27392185694.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3390/2760/files/kulosetip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/2945/7064/files/xaxuwuzevedawugejaxiwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4204/5090/files/barudipebu.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_off00005fe6.bin
86b52b41362b50e0fdc97d989664fd51df86e971a421333552dcf6e2a08b158a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FE6 5284 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000720b.bin
f808b0bc6edf7e92b3715bc8ca64782abf579ff9df9f912200af18195a6cb81e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x720B 10548 bytes