Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2b2b0df4a301fb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-08-29 16:46:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1901f258a6478c367a9e84ce0bee9398 SHA-1: 6efdd2ee43e9e022a1ac081c3a343fc9d5f8b2b4 SHA-256: c2b2b0df4a301fb54e2ff5afd66a7fec71faf9274fe224a365f06e7d89c37492
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=autodesk+sketchbook+tutorial+espa%25C3%25B1ol'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.cc/wix?keyword=autodesk+sketchbook+tutorial+espa%25C3%25B1ol
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/6606/7866/files/froggy_goes_to_camp_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4639/5304/files/60819816526.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0453/3475/7531/files/language_activities_for_kindergarten.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8275/1893/files/31175699773.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2349/0457/files/7792105310.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5313/7576/files/26326750880.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7895/8758/files/zaxowusasodit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0553/2569/files/alice_in_wonderland_graphic_novel.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_632dc816256b42d1bbeacd3c617a18c7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2b3f46_2ccde6e52b774dc3bc5946b3335b2e87.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ec4a275d710244c5a2b50610b0d6abd1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3dac6d33d23745beac1c2bc26ccdf979.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_45596a660d2d478ab33f6b427a3f0e8f.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_off00006bf6.bin
e7b8cb38b416404fdc0c69dee7a22ec5ffe9f7b22be602f22a65146368a4d162
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BF6 5564 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007e8a.bin
7f644680d56ea62af40a5a6fdd96e3b5ffcfafcd1b861983bf8f17fa640e780f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E8A 10500 bytes