Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81ae239608ec6471…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-08-31 06:50:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b83b4ea6a9aed58ff51632bf36297d6d SHA-1: 9cb9f789538fc7c3fa48ca11b972e42eddb4a2f7 SHA-256: 81ae239608ec64710beaac77b013ed964d79fc8e46c38024463373b3b5b7e19f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a "Florida keys visitors guide" and includes the malicious URL. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to obscure the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

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=florida+keys+visitors+guide
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9465/3595/files/alphabetizing_words_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9940/5977/files/71254859120.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9832/5663/files/65641736771.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1955/0370/files/53978077201.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4154/4599/files/cyclone_vayu_live_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4615/7992/files/rupture_hepatoma_guideline.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8774/0576/files/fha_modular_home_appraisal_guidelines.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c5d40f_ef8f61cd6c0e4ddfade1a3a80eafdd45.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d55797_ee4e0fe7110c44a991cbf73fa135bbe2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5167/7856/files/89033109151.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8746/9471/files/28637601038.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000067b9.bin
6d5b20cbd97fcfd659a1da1fc07f3f035f3c2f09cdc51b2b8f025b2e51ab44bc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67B9 4948 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078b3.bin
bf50b019a4bb352fd243494c84307daf4f1f281c931f2f459350e0d9da86b447
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78B3 9980 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009ae8.bin
ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9AE8 4324 bytes