Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c585edc4abbbbb98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-08-29 04:00:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d81d66cf64078cf38373bdddac32f35a SHA-1: 56026a6e3da59998de64eb55145f570447eddefb SHA-256: c585edc4abbbbb98e278dcf5e4e5c5eacc234da54f712b50c9c6cb4225ffb617
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link to a known malicious redirector, disguised with a lure of "Printable trivia questions". The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK confirms this, and the ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains the malicious URL.

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=printable+trivia+questions
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7248/6566/files/remabugetudumeladaveped.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8689/5522/files/fwiw_urban_dictionary.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5346/6271/files/merge_free_online_tool.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0227/7542/files/poruvofetibeteb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1e95c97eab8c4b959e761f0896d246b4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f0cd584adfd84226944bf179f5467e41.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_46727d6a9e3a44e880657e6f3428764c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a77fcee47bbc407a82ad57eb7e063926.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dbd07f14ab5f45fd859c2f79901bb49b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e0ec9d01b5224ac2b0db595c21313d7c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6c465caafb6245ab8528534a815fc2a9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a76236dc6014450881049cea60c599ec.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_456d002bd15c4264bd5030bdd5c535c5.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_off00005d31.bin
cb4218f07a99a0c00af2a39b261a520d253376e85a962a99c01f30149a2e87e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D31 5004 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e44.bin
1c27306c1159cc91b884ceed069bdc9a19b1e15524b9efa25da1f96a2742d330
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E44 10240 bytes