Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9560ba9bbcaa06f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.4 KB Created: 2020-08-29 04:02:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 33a0cb8d179bf50a1bf55bb1dd839b91 SHA-1: 25fcde3ccac7971fcec7e893f99f6c70e31774c2 SHA-256: 9560ba9bbcaa06f6cba160e0b4aaef4f17cabe13fb9e66e0de95010a31eb6fd4
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body and heuristics indicate a likely SEO manipulation or link farm tactic, potentially used to distribute further malicious content or to artificially inflate search rankings. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=7th+grade+genetics+test
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/8821/5963/files/higher_or_lower_unblocked.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8642/0893/files/alphabetical_order_worksheets_5th_grade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4704/2728/files/51695528768.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1c55765bbe5749f695c7ef89e18e9ac8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f26783c5898343659938d719a5737507.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2259/7800/files/83879009917.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4484/7261/files/91479042675.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7245/2776/files/58819449856.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3108/4708/files/zopisujiwakipuva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5876/4696/files/wamosofagoweso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9423/7599/files/pabesoxifoworavurali.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8669/1998/files/fibixasiwejazavuxuju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3140/2395/files/seesaw_i_need_you_remix.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_off00004a4d.bin
b04b483bf61f7479c4dadda051b60a0d49376752405404d7c5cda09484176dc7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A4D 5152 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005bd0.bin
816dcd2a347c4e23665ea65de3f1be9733ffb07ec3d8733cbeeae67c07c77eed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BD0 15020 bytes