Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2adac7690109727…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-08-07 13:58:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 238a99fc1667151ed15c82357a8d162c SHA-1: 321004587a68241310d881e332528932ed25b099 SHA-256: f2adac7690109727e64a2221dfd9974069af007e11d902ea58d40e954248e7cf
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=berliner+platz+b1+neu+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious PDF. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=berliner+platz+b1+neu+pdf
    • http://vuzujudo.sharpiepresents.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969754/044fa6b1a.pdf
    • http://files.communitynavigatorsinc.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739628/womiperum.pdf
    • http://files.norcalsmartvestorpro.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710655/96f0fa3.pdf
    • http://files.theseareelijahdays.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070579/kolinawujireza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/21533622499.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7832/8221/files/jinifapelimanovu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6181/9045/files/lujunerumugik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3963/8179/files/31348390125.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2405/1358/files/whois_godaddy_com.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2961/7057/files/91150019738.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6055/1070/files/pukux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8726/3899/files/8077325761.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3350/9535/files/63462251694.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5573/5199/files/salon_mission_statements.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3010/8577/files/roxekikewagimozufuf.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_off00007666.bin
f9df15c4caaf94d9b42a77e9b7fc82889c3a658921888aa2dac26641fdd56f5d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7666 5148 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000087fe.bin
3ba62ed27507f6fa85de958b765f5dc86584c1f1fdd4832c7084751e03e6109c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87FE 11340 bytes