Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6a011a2efd0a87b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.8 KB Created: 2020-08-22 07:38:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9eee310aac9335baa13545f5642f1b4e SHA-1: d3013010b92e992abd40f0c3a30d4026a6b7cfab SHA-256: f6a011a2efd0a87b3eb925540a460350633fca12151624bb953ec2cd797fb210
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious domain, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Axolotl facts and information' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates the PDF is part of a larger link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=axolotl+facts+and+information
    • http://files.ideamagnets.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739154/mesuxuzeromugib_zanakeb.pdf
    • http://tokak.mikearend.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969352/4f30f4574.pdf
    • http://files.writingfromthewastebasket.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712185/valuta.pdf
    • http://ripovud.timsguitar.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378898/gamus-sedexopusomuzap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6754/7554/files/fubugaximene.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6694/7744/files/26064735271.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2658/6519/files/58175062001.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6371/3695/files/70453879826.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0377/2056/files/kewomu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6676/0095/files/syllogism_rules_bankersadda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5982/2244/files/flash_ms_pacman.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5104/1447/files/vobekaminedi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2490/0515/files/digibug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6942/3269/files/2446269071.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8543/0945/files/69960437891.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3434/5625/files/rolex_ayo_and_teo_audiomack.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1322/6152/files/39656395210.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_off00007d1d.bin
03c77e7843c39d2dafe7c65649454f0db0c57611523c2cf264419c840cfac8c8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D1D 5224 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008ec5.bin
fa2965b11983667a73740b32744b65e766646ebc0ceb7122f93e675458f8dc20
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8EC5 10332 bytes