Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5ad0944db669167…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-09-01 01:53:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c9f1633a822ef66a382c90b9546cd223 SHA-1: b745b088b98a838d0b5cb9b15391963eb78d9208 SHA-256: c5ad0944db669167fe6950741f9e5ac476c7ea447c95aeedb75fc110d3ea27d1
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing for a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, with many URLs pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern appears to be SEO manipulation via a link farm, with a secondary malicious redirector link.

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/pify?keyword=best+super+fund+performance+2018
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5470/2496/files/jibevawijasivadurus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9946/4611/files/business_development_job_description.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9191/0038/files/naxiwez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1620/8036/files/kalawuxetufijo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7715/7542/files/estructura_de_un_proyecto_productivo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6080/4249/files/jaxaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8865/0135/files/acrobat_dc_standard_installer.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/11f207_a93eb9d5351d44adb4344d806543389d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_73c3feb5774a4625a0513c9c1c281488.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/9424/6303/files/android_auto_apps_apple_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2790/7239/files/forensic_and_legal_psychology_3rd_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/totavari.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3532/0742/files/dedafalefukujofugositu.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_off00006367.bin
0a9a81ff7765afbd8e15971b870fcf72b8558380e807b9d6931f412f6bd73a19
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6367 5840 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007730.bin
6f980dc964ccd1fe1350db3c02a48c09b05ce4cc2d88bfccb4668f2500b17e46
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7730 12556 bytes