Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5296422d89e8f890…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-30 02:31:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f76a43b968388a51e511f59343cba1bc SHA-1: 279a186e9df6d312b654ffc7232d280134652aec SHA-256: 5296422d89e8f890fc9a7b4381ccaaa83d1592a65b428fa397313d29e67bcc5f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that leads to this redirector, disguised with a seemingly benign keyword. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to PDF files, likely intended to manipulate search engine results or distribute 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.cc/wix?keyword=pilates+ring+exercises+for+seniors
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6109/2250/files/nolosenejafonotisitabolav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1644/4315/files/25780718543.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3197/0460/files/zokefaweleluduxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2382/5053/files/blood_group_a_positive_diet_chart.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3237/0584/files/gqti_capital_8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bdeb4c_51b2dbe17fed40d7b00512d2e25f8800.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9c43ec_28420b980d9f4b2ca801676140a987c2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f65518_9ff4a369b0994331aa09cff82c5c1775.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e4a94a6ddf6d452cbc41c039b8f8e669.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/83e24f_ccd6761f74744c23adc8198c901f1ab4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0adedf_108d8ea46acb4e76863ced0f2c505c8d.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_off00005f3a.bin
4bbee4587e7d0cf8163de53f365e5956964b2eef490cc2bf68a39acfa9e3fac8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F3A 5120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070ae.bin
0fcaba399d86ce3d46e8bbbab5b424ea6b18a42bd4c55bd602c2a1cb94fc81c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70AE 10084 bytes