Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2be601f788bf661…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.6 KB Created: 2020-09-02 00:41:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3764de95f9112046d0b7d189918f0c9b SHA-1: eb36ad4dbf3a5957cc191bd7375efd61b0b801c5 SHA-256: f2be601f788bf661c42265e3e1fb6332cf4c1297ac2f5017b456afbb6ef834ee
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a known malicious infrastructure, indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that is likely intended to lure the user into clicking it. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning or traffic generation.

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=afghan+calendar+1397+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3cb679_360c1baed5374f03a191ca884d61740b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/289c5e_24b4d80ec0614c89a724b3874d692f83.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b85eb0_0dfac142469e4ed6ade5da58737995ab.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a421e3_1657e87dbaeb4871a64fdcccbdf7cc9d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1927/9263/files/rukatisoditifimufe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7548/5348/files/35978327852.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0174/1463/files/46470756353.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7611/4837/files/75949606867.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2639/0946/files/gigin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0087/3631/files/79510109808.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6860/5095/files/53721517491.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2124/6370/files/32795473580.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0459/1255/files/verbo_etre_avoir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7342/8888/files/73639896951.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off0000c6e9.bin
4d665f8e888d75f1a69d83865663ebf37076932c1109a47ac9525e17082c6870
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xC6E9 26404 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off00008121.bin
7190749ec93ee30522e30cb6c1872e8f7f220611be47a769a9a05e62ee562b9d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8121 5680 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000947f.bin
caf897db684650467044b88fc32dfab267c03e99498d5534be721bf79036da84
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x947F 17232 bytes