Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bfa226a7875430af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-08-29 22:25:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f809ffeb64c8a58728072e417a5671b7 SHA-1: bf391d79f0fe886c377ddb78c7e56c5335b8a5da SHA-256: bfa226a7875430af4597c66306f0af69efd56505a1c95c403b9c8db797325d7a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links to other PDF documents, a technique often used in SEO link farms. One of these links, https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=la+condicion+humana+andre+malraux+rese%25C3%25B1a, is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body appears to be corrupted or obfuscated, preventing a deeper analysis of its specific lure.

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/wix?keyword=la+condicion+humana+andre+malraux+rese%25C3%25B1a
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4044c70bd1634e7f91176e2bca3425b4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f4afea57049f47549d6eebe7b958a90e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2178fc3e576e45d3806a5c0956ce27b2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e8d5142e7c894a51bdee1eaed8d5c0eb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7967/2735/files/76776899522.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5183/5801/files/gefewemor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0100/4707/files/sovuwulinuwegepiwavapegi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1449/4107/files/texas_food_handlers_course_answers.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b680fbf460504cafb5037c88a2e77bf4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/61b8bf_304e87d022a74f5680acec894f1ed06f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7d7af03a04d145f7a49d1f0b9cdc5789.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5a1791_65c92cf2640e4bf5b972b19a6ea9c0fc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/565485_20563bbac2294294be5796dd8754f594.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_off00006875.bin
09ab346f4a18d3aac9a5fe50055478beeefcd5a65a608ce872d9677c5af92021
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6875 5400 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a5c.bin
ec01a01385c6ee18aa6eac00185eabb381ec3fe21cf0f8925a41d6312a2c4ccd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A5C 11368 bytes