Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa4a6bf4c9b21b1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-09-09 12:41:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2d7760c2237af9d772507b930176a055 SHA-1: 26cc9c414726a002dddf3184aeb78b7d81034803 SHA-256: fa4a6bf4c9b21b1ea8580c14eb3c934144470bab76f564d3b064686282bbc4cc
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector. The document body text, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to a 'word scramble quiz'. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to further malicious content.

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.club/wix?keyword=word+scramble+quiz+with+answers
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5048/3368/files/56716270456.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6414/7609/files/a_level_physics_pdf_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2282/6142/files/31683159769.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1977/8720/files/dolulul.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bdc04d_01137a698ba64262a18964f2530bb342.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d43733_19f5b89bc5ba4507a3ce388d368c3324.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6f58fb_c66bca40a50240a88b6314fb15b1a0b9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1544/4376/files/kofasodowo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4101/2382/files/czasy_teraniejsze_angielski_wiczenia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1221/1359/files/wepalugutametapifex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9418/7933/files/chandramukhi_movie_telugu_lo_ing.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/361f4b_e04b31bf6d3b421d83c7b33c4c67c2da.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ea2c45_b322805e940343018fb06450282a7f23.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/685707_96b5c69dcc244d22983608149183fdb0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8cbfce_f9009272ae97446d9e460850bb215ef4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9219f8_3d2bf4c147b44c9e92e40a66bd8ad82d.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_off00005e6f.bin
cd34b4bfe9c1104acd05932fa06f791467bdc90cda139757b02e7c57e49cafa5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E6F 5600 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007169.bin
1fec0c6e528b20d868c58c1d0d3172bf400136ce023a30d556dbdfcba81d1026
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7169 10564 bytes