Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cd80952df113985…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2020-08-30 05:22:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0d6f8df11a555208aef26266c1a5df1c SHA-1: aedc26ee29d481f5ab8532583065a0f7454c5dd8 SHA-256: 9cd80952df113985ddbed3c2e07557b81244218b32a9421451e42ba05b3a86ab
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a critical heuristic for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Additionally, it contains a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to a compromised or malicious site.

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=reves+de+femme+free+fr
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0388/5206/files/nurogefalubexe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6818/4994/files/spanish_grammar_textbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5340/7646/files/puzewerutiliku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4796/7130/files/5e_illusion_wizard_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5720/9753/files/tropical_rainforest_biome_information.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8286/6083/files/50922864647.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8339/7275/files/41563375494.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_85a02cd4e13f44c7a75ca7189ebe6650.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4275fff636264bcd9c8b473c06ad75c9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ec0c41_796390ea7e144289b96bb2baf94a56be.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9e2c51bd73404a989aa91434f55decf8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5942/0063/files/tameja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9691/4586/files/22149191414.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2373/6725/files/azorin_biografia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0499/1387/files/veposatujizife.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_off0000d8d0.bin
fec548b641e1e16e66c43e68dbad0559cffa545852089242b8bfb24359b00f59
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8D0 4880 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e95d.bin
75a4bd96b4cb2510e66637638a30b4431e4a32e7b3654953e0f66127477db9b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE95D 16200 bytes