Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef304223053d427d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 03:09:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dde3a1d60470c0d76c9fba0c848702fe SHA-1: 1250bfd3eb1e745f6d4a9b250b3fcccd6aa30066 SHA-256: ef304223053d427d5197d5c9fd72f4b43f2b578ec1edd70ac31f377a32b1ac9d
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 it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Additionally, it features a PDF link farm, suggesting an attempt to generate traffic or distribute malicious content. The primary IOC is the malicious redirector URL found within the document.

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=budget+paladin+deck
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/834936_671e0cff2ef047baafb46c2cc452d353.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/32acb1_f5a2cc69ea224ac183ef406d20bcde7d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2c250_4756461fc66b47fe9013c2ed45a1af7d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4a9d8c3bd2f34959b9573af6e6a70b68.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_709bbebb40af484b85921a52210b3de5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1799/3366/files/four_archetypes_jung.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_69835b07f3384104b37017660d06b508.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_52d883453f4549c5a4d7035657ecbeed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4241/4493/files/98173045521.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4296/3613/files/best_book_for_history_of_english_literature.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3484/4059/files/10500658612.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/3144/9000/files/briggs_and_stratton_6._5_hp_carburetor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9724/2262/files/oblivion_natural_environments.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_off00007969.bin
786b6146ae35df973e956d3c25f00e64bff66b7ffac332ed82e99f8d08b9f492
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7969 5080 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008abe.bin
c9f5454ea302a53fde10efb7eade471d8a7f0f1c476922b4b11e87ec1284aa2b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8ABE 9968 bytes