Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50c14701eec0df3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.5 KB Created: 2020-09-03 23:08:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d2dc7173503b1a61fa07e77da7b5609f SHA-1: a0379b630c4997c9529257304ed1f9659ca7e277 SHA-256: 50c14701eec0df3cdab4147e4b843790098add61b6a1799800fdb23eb961bbf8
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics as malicious, specifically for containing a link to a known malicious redirector and a large number of external PDF links. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains the malicious URL and several benign-looking URLs hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further 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.me/wix?keyword=xml+formatter+php
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9245/8152/files/8131957590.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9681/0396/files/61680821750.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6857/1299/files/8579428548.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7934/1982/files/nikibowixupuxaxop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1133/2503/files/resimli_arapa_trke_szlk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3149/4810/files/varolavutulelivarabumidir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2873/4375/files/xinitoduvazivalaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9044/4445/files/98573899337.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5915/1009/files/16916532653.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6240/2967/files/wixefakenufifa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3331/2925/files/12232624740.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3731/0632/files/beating_bronchiectasis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8038/4674/files/kugevujukusuluw.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_off00005a58.bin
711ca2a824332258225afbed195cb173b6d93e3030b727a07e9b26dcd6495404
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A58 4940 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006af4.bin
2e59889b87ea6715877ba6a2c5a2f30ff657403f759c9c847c39548ce411d948
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AF4 11396 bytes