Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00f2ace6b2232f70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-26 15:11:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ca17dc386eb4675fc31a08db24d461b4 SHA-1: 52cffbaa26bee77bd68ea59faf2b3e1bfa289d5d SHA-256: 00f2ace6b2232f7081de6df5bfb2317d12e1e73da80eb40bf3c0c16b9387ef49
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains URLs that are likely part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results and lure victims. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is used for malicious redirection.

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=apartment+guide+indianapolis+west+side
    • http://kixusev.gailellensmith.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/47e53b2cd0371.pdf
    • http://files.williampeskett.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739658/58306526.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/2153/8204/files/belijiwemowafevesus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8030/3267/files/bones_tv_show_episode_guide_season_7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3178/9721/files/bukhari_sharif_in_english.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3250/1656/files/99288041742.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3296/7318/files/nasm_5th_edition_textbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3605/5454/files/college_graduation_party_invitation_templates.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1748/4957/files/lakujob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3333/7768/files/rarodizuzidopefuwogo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0158/5562/files/sports_terms_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/3109/3397/files/reading_graphs_and_charts_worksheets_middle_school.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1143/2867/files/vaturu.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000063a7.bin
72850e310621aabed8814d508959c7f5b7a6c6db25dc6696ab327c98e4c18d5d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63A7 5360 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075d4.bin
69eb5479fdf09fa753c86cf95fa48a06eba183a608966c8493ec29941d681ee2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75D4 13560 bytes