Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1d9eaedd0b6b8e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.3 KB Created: 2020-08-30 02:53:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c5b0681cbd26761abaaf56bc8cbc5654 SHA-1: 0ea92f81130c03de7b712eca373f1684a25573ea SHA-256: c1d9eaedd0b6b8e1ee8c46f58255f321fbb63d94e1afd8a71aad85a2a5f141e5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily garbled, contains the suspicious URL, suggesting it is part of a lure. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify and static.usrfiles.com, indicates a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing.

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=qu%25E1%25BA%25A7n+jogger+nam+h%25E1%25BA%25A3i+d%25C6%25B0%25C6%25A1ng
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4138/8704/files/42124804452.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/0620/6631/files/ethical_issues_in_information_technology_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7146/3831/files/34201617810.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3755/6889/files/6937832218.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6127/9896/files/18945651729.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6cf392_ca6d6f993d794794a4896f221d5886f5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7a9a48cdaf0d4a12b9854da07d65e756.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0f3b9c2cb1cd470db88665cd18bc7821.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/912de2_304e6e7dc5c84154ab3c1c65815e865e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d82adfd76b7f42a78f74ed560df4652e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/086daf_ae5669fe57fd4423ab7e93668000a26f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7ea8bb_db23162b14c54612a1e92a2b101ae184.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_off00004af5.bin
bde1cb01467d616f3dc86d5f625c39542c3c2661ca701c13f5959b6239fd0d17
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4AF5 5964 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005dd1.bin
423776154717b0a5f330bb3b7dfbf6fa036f75140868491cf864e7a4a870fe6e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DD1 13472 bytes