Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b223f72b6c7dacb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.4 KB Created: 2020-07-30 23:34:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 02f3492a0160d59c39d320b1e526f9e6 SHA-1: f932a7992c0d732a0f470d93bb3fba90b5fca5d5 SHA-256: b223f72b6c7dacb8f1b1a47708a4fffd098c876203d4d41574416efc8c6b7361
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics indicating it is a malicious redirector and part of a link farm. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with at least one pointing to known malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, preventing a clear understanding of its direct lure, but the extensive use of external links strongly suggests a traffic redirection or SEO poisoning 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=caffeine+citrate+package+insert+pdf
    • http://files.mingateachers.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384414/3794204bfe2.pdf
    • http://files.acdavisbass.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969754/458cf81ed37.pdf
    • http://files.woodcraftguildtasmaniainc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814340/830762.pdf
    • http://files.woodcraftguildtasmaniainc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814340/830
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9802/9733/files/31870004188.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0064/3236/files/luvipaged.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2981/5705/files/dakimepaselunanilunabexer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4636/2523/files/5428556901.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2530/9601/files/jomovulovobuwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3102/6071/files/doduxenuwawubopoba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1352/8987/files/86154867770.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8035/8811/files/86170090017.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9219/5993/files/savekano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6053/5196/files/tabatomamudupogubusavupif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6481/1927/files/kapuxogokawafibed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4614/2114/files/49117384003.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1356/0727/files/tususiwade.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_off00009001.bin
0e376b8455fc4e5d4fd1956140a6b35cd329ae8956cec5fabeca0e9f144443cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9001 5056 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a14a.bin
c0ce5ee48aee4875daf3f3a789b11c038cef435c2bc942b6d72341dadcb30a3a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA14A 10272 bytes