Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebc319ad18e620f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.0 KB Created: 2020-08-08 18:54:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2ddc090d64c6bed99fa08a4409860132 SHA-1: 53ba44a665a5e9670c092734062cf2ee3a9f71f2 SHA-256: ebc319ad18e620f1ef19447703a13614fd251688f1b9f311633e9d07a80a9beb
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is characteristic of a PDF link farm designed for SEO manipulation. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=pantanos%20de%20villa%20pdf', is identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, reinforcing its role as the primary lure. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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.ru/wb?keyword=pantanos%20de%20villa%20pdf
    • http://files.onsfbay.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406202/6275820.pdf
    • http://bonofalas.gcctraining.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383483/3412988.pdf
    • http://files.koepplinkicking.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871730/4abaaf8ce6ff.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3706/4354/files/mawod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9599/0175/files/80290802970.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0704/9877/files/jebapuwesifexopuvixi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9220/4950/files/jafufigejozerebamonarexa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5294/7863/files/munojifukegegi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3359/8880/files/alejandro_jodorowsky_libros_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1687/0293/files/above_ground_storage_tanks_myers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8425/1285/files/2839340190.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5029/4678/files/18387635968.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5313/7576/files/41547475318.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3149/3784/files/90699349955.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_off000076f7.bin
cc91d2eb3530dbf21af19bb537c5727b72c0b8499a1e5309c07215faa9fd1049
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76F7 5000 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008819.bin
5ecfddfe14f1100b5d524efb18a0c9ecd4ebc2d1b911bad9bf9a246019d9a54b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8819 11716 bytes