Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f94d964a9064114…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-08-08 12:53:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cbb570e9050d547d5ef2ae58dc6af870 SHA-1: b19527c6796488d0ae2164b4f5503c959b4c2ddf SHA-256: 7f94d964a9064114cdcd632681357ea2abae94e3019e4e387420273897703f6a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a large number of embedded links. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure (https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=orchestral%20excerpts%20for%20flute%20pdf). Another critical heuristic indicated a PDF link farm, with many links pointing to shopify.com domains, likely for SEO manipulation to distribute malicious content. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains the malicious redirector URL.

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/wb?keyword=orchestral%20excerpts%20for%20flute%20pdf
    • http://files.mackeiganmarketing.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452732/sodopafesub.pdf
    • http://files.fathomworx.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969652/fuzixusuf.pdf
    • http://nugox.callbuddys.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696030/vonekovite-vizasuwojok-juwevixukaru.pdf
    • http://roniluvur.fortywinksbakery.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968921/3c998ebf418.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8255/5297/files/back_to_school_activities_middle_school.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xikidewutuxazumal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/63529720688.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4484/8295/files/84885240042.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3738/2040/files/bikib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0069/8792/files/acca_f8_course_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4146/5244/files/jagola.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9162/3074/files/wejozimugipawojokuziv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4973/8650/files/wazogusabinosiweninaf.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_off00006ad2.bin
a1540f244444a2e392b7d8f0068585776b375ef791651fa6590e0fa390fb22da
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AD2 5340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007cf9.bin
bf16eb3f834b2df5b1889ecf2386a8dab8dc3e1087314b287fc7b8aa2b19f525
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CF9 15308 bytes