Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b093bdae23d6a688…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.6 KB Created: 2020-08-05 23:18:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 08562883f57eed4a1a79f1cffa986e34 SHA-1: 3dfdbef57090f539de300d4b378008c20109af61 SHA-256: b093bdae23d6a688f701d34c1c7b430f221dee5754bc0e163256bf416de862d2
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=calidad+ambiental+en+colombia+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, with numerous embedded links, including one to 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7396/1125/files/kedaxi.pdf'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the malicious URL and appears to be a lure for environmental quality information in Colombia.

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.cc/pify?keyword=calidad+ambiental+en+colombia+pdf
    • http://files.onedollarapologist.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407148/fisojijirofoforiwepe.pdf
    • http://files.warkianilab.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411199/0b53bc3459.pdf
    • http://files.stahlmennonite.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682585/dixixegoletanev-lokigagunojov-rivupejutuwule-visaremuxis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7396/1125/files/kedaxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0688/6051/files/focus_on_grammar_5_4th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7432/2586/files/kovogiluwopubufopek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5313/7576/files/vibarixewigupi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8843/5613/files/zovuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3592/6434/files/tasuxapopapuve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6834/8830/files/zurawajifuwuki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6285/2773/files/31955862472.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7706/5121/files/70037721568.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6645/8265/files/vejupusalowamijofupipix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8064/6807/files/39857373812.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5417/7183/files/tugawunuwenoki.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_off00007fbe.bin
a20ec4509a56e310977e61edfd5c6bee9ff0039a0b1cac87b1ae8a87b13513c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FBE 5072 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000090ea.bin
a6ce227d2cf14e0c274fc89d2f49a4a778f0675aec6decf00aeff4a4ace297b9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90EA 11816 bytes