Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce70b06e174ce21c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-03 19:32:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 11f4c4ac399735d926324311d9a3f7cc SHA-1: 6402cb2c3554762139a70c0b6e6e92a1e3484f03 SHA-256: ce70b06e174ce21c792f74ce561ad5b8bb959b85c6c45e3c72c32d3744b4386a
152 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 identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic firings indicate this PDF is designed as a link farm, likely to manipulate SEO or direct users to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this document.

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=research+article+review+example+pdf
    • http://files.bigpigeon.us/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739593/vunak-kujupasiwisevi.pdf
    • http://files.fauncechurch.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740571/1db84a22.pdf
    • http://files.tracyhansencoaching.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739658/d0b9c.pdf
    • http://files.cbocesinnovative.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969768/natovorosezuk-tajowagalavun.pdf
    • http://files.singletonwa.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738850/bewuloduzugeg-jijelikelek-zebera-lajuvukoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6827/7415/files/popemezixaxej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7256/0033/files/coyote_hunting_games.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1868/9432/files/kinajo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7728/0671/files/42686453547.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4411/8434/files/85052746284.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2656/9633/files/stokes_theorem_example_problems.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2862/8135/files/when_to_use_furthermore.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7446/2631/files/ridojifituwidivasadojun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2650/5118/files/black_jack_java.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6934/0822/files/32673775894.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8306/2678/files/22582590850.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9660/4825/files/kagixevibugefifiwopa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2930/7293/files/pododedosepokemafisud.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_off000067d7.bin
a4a22ea138337a1cb1b011d37092ce1d865550c4ed7ce5e7a64401bf993cf2ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67D7 5620 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ae7.bin
91d8f442d1d7a2df59d96bce1259f6f34c9c4c09441fef19e417459de07d74a1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AE7 10348 bytes