Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e02f52ead18bf995…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 18:32:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f0d00666404eea484f76645f3e2db295 SHA-1: f6d2102dfd2566662327fbed5dc62c0a057e94b1 SHA-256: e02f52ead18bf995eef334ea76f4dc2aedf549b474fe47be573aff622a5b7cde
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=dise%25C3%25B1o+y+calculo+de+estructuras+de+concreto+reforzado+vicente+perez+alama'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, with numerous links to PDFs hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool sometimes used to create malicious documents.

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.com/wix?keyword=dise%25C3%25B1o+y+calculo+de+estructuras+de+concreto+reforzado+vicente+perez+alama
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7147/0742/files/89453975509.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9281/1669/files/gosov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5218/7298/files/types_of_pesticides.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3096/0549/files/3457752150.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6286/8633/files/bootstrap_button_link.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1177/6416/files/viviputinedu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6341/8784/files/waxana.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/8806/8005/files/nuxona.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1342/2753/files/zifemiburomawurelufa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6879/2732/files/fazifagupusowavon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/9756/2776/files/96840317874.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2921/7958/files/betugopadufe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8058/1274/files/nexoruzikebeva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tedogunugovosilogupex.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_off000052e1.bin
7d6c8dbac9f30777b2f548b012b6cc00e4f8a6a42d1021bb7f02dacc10059597
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x52E1 5724 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006613.bin
f74da50c35dc891b6fb738dcdb25c5aa473841e53732c7999047713dd3bb0226
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6613 10868 bytes