Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f546b13b221d3c9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.6 KB Created: 2020-08-06 21:39:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 33a3723ede071ad4d894f2defeed2b19 SHA-1: e1cc83db39a0b0f5ab428fdd75094465c678b5d0 SHA-256: f546b13b221d3c9f39b1c914b40581c220e14cbb4f415e52b85c14f7440486b3
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign designed to lure users to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=cellular+respiration+worksheet+pdf
    • http://files.dsimpsonbooks.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776055/xafilizeje.pdf
    • http://files.robertsfamilygenerations.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814030/5363710.pdf
    • http://files.rachelgrubbmusic.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302940/5652406.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8184/2341/files/86138761885.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6529/4504/files/68359083349.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3350/8512/files/fifukapabamopojunowit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5430/1338/files/vicks_filter_free_cool_mist_humidifier_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6335/3244/files/rinifiza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5351/3893/files/adele_skyfall_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3349/1606/files/xixipojaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1712/6563/files/18252376821.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3710/6087/files/convert_list_to_dictionary_python.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8450/5498/files/custom_world_presets.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_off00005846.bin
e1006a74ba254611ef0d390cdd3617b1cfe662840203b5e44e1b65b035132443
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5846 5188 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000069f4.bin
96e699dbb5316acf789cf7dd32f1523c48bb3a281f232d063f09905d884e5ba0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69F4 10452 bytes