Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f911831042fec452…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-09-03 20:48:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1adfa69dde45912e28f8809cc5693d7a SHA-1: 56d035b6c118d0592357a8c93d98921bad62d8e9 SHA-256: f911831042fec4520cfe6b2df0d383d940abe55acfe8d2498f2dba56d82efee9
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with the primary link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'mto air brake handbook pdf' and references wkhtmltopdf, suggesting a lure for search engine optimization. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.link/wix?keyword=mto+air+brake+handbook+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3318/8769/files/73316589534.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0985/8969/files/balasubramaniam_hit_songs_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4645/1862/files/33460850641.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/32777b_30eec13103834b18b00bdfa84f10ec3e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0bac334638874eb7886b943bbae14768.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce77c6_315bcf0fc9344c81b6ad3e985f1fde81.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cc089a_f27c2f1c88324f13b5705d2fa3698072.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b1b16e_cc8e27201aaf4e81ad5fed597792b1d5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7205/2643/files/tavifabonoxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5291/5098/files/gepodulotakezobokum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5682/3462/files/xofakoribateduxibab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9438/5575/files/gamatip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1708/4839/files/taxivepokilaril.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/5578/7681/files/57221922812.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9143/5422/files/tomowifigaxon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1386/4602/files/17042114699.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_off000061a0.bin
227006ed59e10532ed491e6b88188c6f88f8c5b059bd5b008c1a13e406f9ee26
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61A0 5128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007311.bin
3f0ea8284eef1cc8952a650b1ce2446da3492f5600fcfe4b1c28e40fbd8bee22
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7311 10132 bytes