Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94f77507dca41409…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-29 17:13:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 12aee94c0642286a2856f44cb1505659 SHA-1: e0a34c67ffdd4e5006c6002db5bb82069b054148 SHA-256: 94f77507dca41409a173ed36f06f32977710fa1f7cbb48ea0f83dd9a8e5657ad
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to SEO-optimized PDF files hosted on Shopify. One of these links, however, directs to a known malicious redirector. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attack designed to lure users to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.club/wix?keyword=list+of+dungeons+and+dragons+3.5+books
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5639/0551/files/mixed_number_fraction_worksheets_3rd_grade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6661/4175/files/calculus_sem_1_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5405/6095/files/vanunamafulug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4160/4263/files/54488025545.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4495/2471/files/da_form_2823_fillable.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/6059/3567/files/54026651620.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2421/0326/files/bitstream_vera_serif_font_free.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7c260c57c9c54c50a60ec3f7617d18dc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5e91c8ffad224240b9b6ae6b2fc36491.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f2f8ee6dcc2042408a592ecaf12b1995.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8cbfce_e8a9c2ebf464477889508c42064d729d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5143/4659/files/27138220849.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0357/5447/files/98599574570.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7034/9731/files/lafepipatemos.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_off0000644e.bin
27c404df3bd65977a85d96c5667c36f3afd1d507e9409bc7e11f56883e27fb01
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x644E 5508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000771f.bin
fec5193dc652b6d27eff648c4c162080af5d3283110e3089be2b02bad364483e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x771F 10220 bytes