Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7aeabe01b6ebf82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.9 KB Created: 2020-08-29 09:52:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c879f4ac4aa209d77b8244e6b569a6d5 SHA-1: 127954f7e86c6b2d0b21fe1bb4136708edb87007 SHA-256: d7aeabe01b6ebf82605d4f8029dc9663637440f2e326c9900eade489c1e470d7
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to known malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Ertl collectibles price guide' and a URL that matches the one identified by the heuristic. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy.

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.me/wix?keyword=ertl+collectibles+price+guide
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b27754dfbcaf4e3c93aabf6a784e59f3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_451c69a7ab8d4a5fa28f1bf65de6d96e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a4ce9aa8831b4a8ea48267412f993133.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_16733916d66c42c1aed634fbb776c53f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d4fca41c453b4f93bd41336a055fcee9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7503/4524/files/vonusubobanokoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6236/1245/files/surah_ar_rahman_muzammil_hasballah.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_587835a246bb40b29448abf5d98af683.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e6a2e7db2f144f8abe4da40b97b82d97.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4364837c90e34bed80cf35080e482e5a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7167622828f74a75b01f80f02a8e7c95.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_00705759c42b404bb7035d577849eafa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_23cbb0ad6bea40678c8891ef98565bb8.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/
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_23cbb0ad6bea

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005a50.bin
d576e91c19c54b2d8b66e0cebe4b5a685f12361b1c854b3ec0f7b690962fa972
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A50 5128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006bc4.bin
5d05d6c4b3cb41081d6f5a37d59969f98c9eee642b1dc623ae8ed2255cb9e652
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BC4 10352 bytes