Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee96322f646d5f20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-20 09:33:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2c7db0cefc4dc760a9b1fce00a258a37 SHA-1: 0219c65192e60956bde7e1a3a3e8cf000f700cd0 SHA-256: ee96322f646d5f20920e62b1baf5ff79573522459252222371b321ea6861608d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains a URL that appears to be part of the link farm, suggesting the primary purpose is to distribute links, potentially leading to malicious sites or for SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload delivery.

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/pify?keyword=gunzerker+skill+tree+guide+borderlands+2
    • http://xigur.onebrotherhoodfc.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606346/42041d651a.pdf
    • http://gobokix.mariongrp.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682646/369f64e27c74fb.pdf
    • http://files.sciartmagazine.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739684/tojavubafuka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4075/8170/files/19148158404.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7814/7491/files/31443174100.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/581871399.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5296/5792/files/57632505768.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8424/2325/files/17291467839.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5753/7439/files/35994175482.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8349/7621/files/diparefivakowonuxudane.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5131/0488/files/lejuranotikunagumitajibel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tokisesuzarutaxiwiru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/4442/9984/files/zusidonubusunexejutufasif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/fupibi.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_off0000653d.bin
5042befcb0ae2efe07266d837e7088df600b0537f348e8c9bb6b9df84114dc82
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x653D 5412 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000077b2.bin
1346685b1bb320601d1af9675b0567b3899b36a50022a4209e1eafbddcd04faa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77B2 10536 bytes