Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 226acaff6d2efb27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 18:14:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f1d14cae21f3eaf38b53eb65b769798e SHA-1: 6c9dc2c99dde82abf4e8d98ca24db34486a57fac SHA-256: 226acaff6d2efb27f8156ae914d4c247c0fa77a3cf692e743a01bc21423da24b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector URL and the sheer volume of external PDF links suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites or engage in SEO spam.

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/wix?keyword=brooks+brothers+size+guide
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7587/1654/files/runescape_mage_equipment_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8538/9221/files/62885515194.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0660/7012/files/29057211786.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8d791ac1433d47b5ae15dd4042e1d47c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d5334062b76041b4906fa610bd60d58a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9e1c665a6c0f4ef59084568526fe18b9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6b1e24127d5c4175b889c175a960c520.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2e4eb4_25c097dca04e447787efcae038fef8b0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b1af31325dd04060929ca47486efe374.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0202632f4e124db693db91f62f856c52.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4651/0497/files/gapanisuweropubasiparogev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0466/2856/9253/files/mopifaxekojiroro.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_off00005bbb.bin
82a4b233060590098832706db7518e4db07561f9800dac6f16f7af98eb144357
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BBB 5148 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d40.bin
8178453963886509c07f2debebf32c55ca728e4803f0d423251399a90a3c91d2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D40 14428 bytes