Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a1589f04060f944…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2020-08-08 05:28:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bb7ea18d48126c152c5dba52bcd48d89 SHA-1: 23b99f00abc83af3a36281ecc6d7ecd73b9a2dbd SHA-256: 2a1589f04060f94404573a4209823443c78bc3485b0e9e4ccc087754dbf1be7b
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a PDF link farm. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=ventilador%20de%20techo%20westinghouse%20manual', is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body appears to be corrupted or obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious URL and the link farm heuristic strongly suggest a malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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.com/wb?keyword=ventilador%20de%20techo%20westinghouse%20manual
    • http://files.communityproblemsolvingday.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814071/nokigusoto.pdf
    • http://files.voiceofgodrevivalsministrie.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069887/jimetugejenodo.pdf
    • http://jolovebi.ailienvuong.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070718/56791.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9639/9265/files/54948811197.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3340/2266/files/xususatimefidimefaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5719/1843/files/vobofomesonikamufakug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4472/4133/files/15641493768.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6404/1373/files/master_organic_chemistry.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8984/4637/files/29553952170.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0812/3303/files/5140564045.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6705/7063/files/84968513394.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/7912/6431/files/a_room_of_one_s_own_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8406/2622/files/37523006295.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/89659803755.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8611/9079/files/21783005177.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4853/3142/files/nexiwiruvununiwotoselu.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_off0000d6c8.bin
d8fe9736996fa06a21335c1b2b4775b0d8bdde7c032ea11ae2b3120faad9675a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C8 5412 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e918.bin
69d1c4e8dfbff6dabdf67ffc9b03add6d1fd6c028615c0093adc4aad7767e32a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE918 10176 bytes