Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90a76f6065332a99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.8 KB Created: 2020-08-18 23:20:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a52f2263891b73dd56e0ddcdd5f153fd SHA-1: fd0f8bc4a07e4a15b7d450f5ef080cb9565d4aa8 SHA-256: 90a76f6065332a99d7f6ba73bb2cccf130e92d2690c68ac1edd78bbf0956d46f
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic firings indicate a PDF link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search results or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the sheer volume of links and the identified malicious redirector point to a content-driven attack.

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.ru/pify?keyword=ost+partners+for+justice
    • http://files.modtone.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410545/paxarugutemogafoto.pdf
    • http://files.k1academy.ca/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681812/takekuwevakuwonewik.pdf
    • http://vemake.moundridgelumber.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776418/c20e5f.pdf
    • http://gefon.yankeetravelers.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695278/rajaloza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4805/8536/files/49748800868.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1018/6654/files/96174386745.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6374/6453/files/2017_audi_a5_convertible.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3705/6414/files/20457856401.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/49893706483.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/6190/7351/files/seafood_recipes_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8851/1130/files/adjective_noun_collocations_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4855/9004/files/wings_of_fire_book_in_english.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5127/0815/files/39665158804.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000573e.bin
a566ce3105340e691c939f786e86504772a482c664788d0966c33bcb3ac8c6de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x573E 4840 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000682b.bin
2f052ce7f2d098a6ebfa44d0e6a8cd6b798ffdc4b97a724585b0f2bc88c99536
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x682B 5080 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007988.bin
6d2f7d376be931d02c766255b4464fc36f9d51d06f9dde3967634bfd4fa96b25
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7988 10192 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00009cb4.bin
ac5d9198e9e5788e2012a92f79ae3d93b0172fa872ff4df9b6836d0aaa1540d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9CB4 16232 bytes