Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7ab64126718ac6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-09-04 02:54:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c919b9f400e22651bce41367deed75d8 SHA-1: b54f288fd225a498d753855b381e8e108d0d1f61 SHA-256: f7ab64126718ac6d51f872b4c8dbae1ba6f89ac1f33c7ec91e54dcf2e1fcc77b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous external PDFs, with the primary redirector URL being identified as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and appears to be a lure disguised as a fact sheet. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing via the embedded links.

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/wix?keyword=fao+aquaculture+species+fact+sheet
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a052f_97cb343a34294a569ea37b45a12cfdf1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/41a0b6_e26217bda2b4446687509a8c66473ca4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/90d19e_c71056fe133f4652a0b63295bca2e580.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1e4819_c003ebc648334c2f9c74c1b32f706123.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c7a620_0127416280ec4df3aca3be1b806d7e12.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/40b9e6_907894bb7c584fdbb8cc0983c16aad14.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5cf23b_0d28aa8d22654388adfefb740de93fb5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1f5cef_25c1ea410fbc4672b3c6478e92885f20.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/defcb2_55a46ddc4bf24ddd96c9cd27c09733da.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7198c1_7eb5cc26087249558f31196075fab634.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3600/6817/files/nifotodalozurowakefuvaniz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6998/7223/files/berlingo_van_2020.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_off00006cb5.bin
68010c15ab0498fcd4dc3cf00c94baae18859cb3015425c1bd67bd248fc442e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CB5 5184 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007e59.bin
a2dbf272702fcb80054d95394185890ec936225dd3cbd72ec476f90592a4f875
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E59 9944 bytes