Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce4fbc18b1f31657…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.2 KB Created: 2020-08-05 12:07:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d117416684c7f0f789a48042718f198a SHA-1: f38ac0272ce3a4fe75048655025af65c60dbefe5 SHA-256: ce4fbc18b1f31657937e1b02289a6245ed84dc8b145ca11fef31321de425b5cf
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with one identified as a malicious redirector leading to a link farm. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and other Shopify-hosted PDF files, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute content via SEO poisoning or similar tactics.

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=apprendre+francais+pour+debutant+pdf
    • http://files.unitedportconsultants.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814459/7c3fbfd9940838.pdf
    • http://files.embcmanning.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407012/rurakisolotikirota.pdf
    • http://files.deepaklalsaini.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164130/09a06035bc7e0a.pdf
    • http://redota.hwcroquetclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/betebuwo-xavulotab-moduxivo-suvuzu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2155/7147/files/sivuvep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4827/9970/files/6675546808.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3604/7520/files/96914738840.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6350/9143/files/durenixatox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3756/4838/files/nafakozeduviju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5362/2182/files/adi_granth_sahib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0346/9221/files/89866787135.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2172/2015/files/license_key_for_vmware_workstation_14.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0423/9783/files/95784614118.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2317/9677/files/baba_yetu_chords.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_off00004b6f.bin
6a052364e8d0b800247e5797194ff964e0b20d9779f8782aa87103b2444905b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B6F 5248 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005d51.bin
47375abc4869bffa62fc6217e0056d1a7e62bb9ea22608479e19a2439e0c79d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D51 11392 bytes