Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2aa0c2f054295f69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-22 05:08:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 318f74b365c3e8b6adb7062dd8babebd SHA-1: 1cc37107a70d9eb5ea1cdb30de7a75981d0db8c1 SHA-256: 2aa0c2f054295f69ac36f2fedce3b4fe34d5b86a8a743d000d76bd7b659ce30f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes text related to 'Ubiquiti unifi firmware upgrade guide' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to improve search engine ranking for 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.com/pify?keyword=ubiquiti+unifi+firmware+upgrade+guide
    • http://files.neighborhoodc.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871814/3093297.pdf
    • http://mesetej.prettylittlebath.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/vezegup_gavufubu_mimidom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5523/4710/files/36560542175.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5911/7206/files/introduction_to_anthropology_and_sociology.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8503/6706/files/malinconia_ninfa_gentile_spartito.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0255/2742/files/janujatelitewawaxumo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7074/9861/files/30506213256.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8115/4204/files/doxarodepetikora.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7001/9994/files/attention_guitar_fingerstyle.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7880/2846/files/6703694450.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/0669/7115/files/google_academico_tesis.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_off000061b8.bin
0820ca72afce4c380795a10c5d55607503d81bb793739a9d3fcd9965ba6b9a2e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61B8 5500 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000745d.bin
a832c49a5b0949e410d4401c553363a077ae3c7ad2783d3659660467900ac355
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x745D 12440 bytes