Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e154f96bcd7abf12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 16:01:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dc8cdaa7ab86dd718bdfc679c0115365 SHA-1: a67d47a763f2197dab8ae75e16d26f55c17ffd01 SHA-256: e154f96bcd7abf12b057b1b409a288a4769093de7a2de7b81831805babf2eb61
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggered this finding. The presence of numerous other embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggests a link farm or content distribution network being leveraged for malicious purposes. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector 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.ru/wix?keyword=ejercicios+de+las+vocales
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_83df093e9ddf49b2bd5c8590211b8142.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cac9e4_755a4daf0fe548da82bb7e2a68a2fd8c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cc7f93e8b811467cb0ed3ad494484435.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/93971e_b2663cef137c46659fbfbe5993b2226b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_75215d55ffe24d41beb6b5705f61ffa5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5216/3482/files/xibisupatenizariruworag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8944/4510/files/36500305520.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/8729/4617/files/antiferromagnetic_materials.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9849/5389/files/ginefemo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1537/9880/files/bbc_english_grammar_book_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8669/9925/files/abraham_maslow_s_need_hierarchy_theory.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_off000057f2.bin
d4882ef6dfc66f978e3eb8468fef883111b278ac84909d86450f408c6980d406
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57F2 5028 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006922.bin
e6aea680dac0538f7db72ce879617396c111d8050abaae4ea8f85877724e32d4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6922 10804 bytes