Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 feca686b239dc95c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-29 06:45:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e52cc8529082b065e97663e6e6d8b46d SHA-1: ceb0d854a8a4aa4f96fbbb663236fc7d7adf750c SHA-256: feca686b239dc95c09582e9660e456ccf89e9ba6ff79bf61313d3d537063d883
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that aligns with this finding. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the 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.cc/wix?keyword=bose+soundlink+model+404+600+service
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9183/5547/files/96560707158.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1378/3199/files/xeresodevebotimulixelibu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4027/6642/files/lotusef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1117/8649/files/smooth_4_instruction_manual.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ed71f763ab1042cc98a3aa668a8935ae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6c25ae0e6f624db8b413c76def41f3cb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gabagijujusudizal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8929/7568/files/bleacher_report_warriors_rockets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9504/0924/files/padekozabeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5671/6186/files/11792211646.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8902b4634f404ea5ae16098248d45256.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fb5d8e9373eb4ad481575361d91ae47b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_acae9f8603aa45ad8ee2cd57f7623b9f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ac5de83784e1429f9049aa2f9bfdd073.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_off00006333.bin
76c04269a30990fec4477dba4f638c2b7d24a823b76c27d442ab6b36d0901e5e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6333 5432 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075a3.bin
da4f97f5139dfb541aa7d09cd74917acf2914876c5b0101208211b58d0bf905a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75A3 10192 bytes