Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 956192b00593eea2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 04:30:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ecc04afdee8949139ffa12108c35e8eb SHA-1: 77c5e8b33c81475b5c119dfa3c97d683b7a06629 SHA-256: 956192b00593eea2212f9c6bc4d104bd4524ad79ef29c37882af73c8cc87b4d9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggered the redirector heuristic. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to distribute 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.com/wix?keyword=plan+y+programas+primer+grado
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0558/1211/files/turnover_tax_in_ethiopia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6887/5157/files/rifimo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8151/5673/files/yoga_poses_for_beginners_at_home.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4873/9740/files/fugotivuvamufize.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6177/9359/files/butterfly_on_a_wheel_movie_free.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5c30d21a8b8c4586b5e78b68638c2b08.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8915/8554/files/postal_exam_955_study_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8731/4585/files/guzotisuvutubewi.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b7acab406c2143de8b869b3fdc374bf4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c83fdb_5cf4869fd5ea4f06ac41d616ccb26f86.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2ecca8e6416e440db3b65cac44bffcda.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ea5d7b_eb9913bbf02d45c8a262227831d0f1ea.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_off00014f78.bin
a3dd3781cb70253afb010dce3ad55bb3f049123431a395c81cf1594783a2f74e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F78 5380 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000161af.bin
bd6727212dbc355715aedfcff88b2098c5f11577278c8478a00969f9799b0866
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161AF 11752 bytes