Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22ba0730ec519d83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-09-01 07:55:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e691d5f4fcc6d7fa59765ce0b4a86870 SHA-1: 453a6d885f92d7dff25a56a00ebd6da91c4343e3 SHA-256: 22ba0730ec519d83a05088fde5f88a08f19794adc5477c8ac12ea9d76f490df1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, which is disguised as a vacuum pump manual. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body and embedded URLs suggest a lure to a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a large number of embedded links to benign Shopify PDFs indicates a potential SEO poisoning or link farm tactic to obscure the malicious redirector.

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=busch+r5+vacuum+pump+manual
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7511/4910/files/qasida_burda_sharif_urdu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1075/2663/files/25416029517.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1392/2206/files/18090706000.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/3681/9865/files/33932316009.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6318/0454/files/rutopejujopegemotemaruz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4018/7303/files/2186465392.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4855/0050/files/76200892176.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5832/3865/files/sidub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1090/6518/files/gujivaworegozuwojef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6280/4136/files/33362550494.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2190/5570/files/apics_s_op.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1a9a834c28534bb6b9f4c5bc94b64f05.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_729d691f03ea498285c983a66500103a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4e8d41fffb954a07975dc57a1c859989.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ea9bdf_c96c0114ffe34891bfc0082da9f756a9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/36f25b_85e2f6796ce641fbaf257e1ffcf2f265.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_off00006459.bin
49638f26d6d7cabe35922fe782eb5e5fed84bf45fffb62cae468e3caf8d5b6a4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6459 5408 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000076a0.bin
dafbf79109b93ed1ea5e2279a0fa98a564b9009857141825c2269a151df7e888
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76A0 11792 bytes