Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9ede93f8ab5c310…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 17:40:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1dc82b8b185b68c8687d8012d76b578f SHA-1: e2471f57e799a4267f00daa02eb62c02b4791b64 SHA-256: e9ede93f8ab5c3103eb5790c858f75978cef4b1c2d843c83b9f3526a197a54e0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that aligns with the malicious redirector finding. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to `cdn.shopify.com` and `static.usrfiles.com`, suggests a link farm intended to obscure the ultimate destination or to distribute multiple malicious payloads.

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.com/wix?keyword=beatles+songbook+the+rubber+band
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0057b85df70f4b5a9ed53a324d77fedd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8bbd7_54ec75a6bb3d4686ac27cbd691cb6885.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87d215_1512a74f713c4ab89879fecadcef197d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_060f67faf6074162b371c8e9907f299d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0183/9775/files/50453786678.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1379/9066/files/mean_deviation_for_grouped_data.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5709/4559/files/og_word_family_worksheets_for_kinder.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9581/7382/files/kuxofiwafiwefoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/7979/8679/files/euclidean_algorithm_in_cryptography.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3747/4466/files/l_algorithme_informatique_cours.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3780/2146/files/61528004182.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9381/1619/files/ezviz_cs_cv310.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1673/3340/files/kuwugonune.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_off00006393.bin
9febbf49b598c7bf2f0d50f082395a3978d17489defe3b60ca2e2ff676773ea0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6393 5340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075af.bin
47ed78b125815eda408ceffdb76688022fa93c3c725f48bc0c16f2640fa1c0a9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75AF 10476 bytes