Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe0af26f8dd62c32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-31 09:22:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ceab3023120221727b8abb7ee360af1b SHA-1: 1839bf147a41474ce1e156ba173b21deaa7a0285 SHA-256: fe0af26f8dd62c325bf673981d7c370c769b5fabf00980b787167d59dc280e38
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, masquerading as a document summary, with the primary link leading to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the heuristic firings confirm the presence of malicious redirector links and a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. The document body text and embedded URLs are consistent with a lure to a malicious site.

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=a+christmas+carol+stave+2+summary
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5582/5567/files/6421936843.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/84005007378.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/6734/6839/files/sustainable_aquaculture.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mirizopenifipometetotagoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8249/7696/files/puzupafiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8535/7463/files/ragako.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8702/0703/files/nagakirok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8475/9711/files/15870225691.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/0709/8262/files/ultrasound_guided_axillary_brachial_plexus_block_video.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3400/8987/files/mapa_baixa_lisboa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_99b5213a15f74a8fbdafc03698a44b45.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bdeb4c_2191909cb9f0437792d03c6ba641d9b4.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_off000067c2.bin
2dfbfe2246c7c640e7d10a328e04bfaaad984e959a1523621af1af5f71e157f9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67C2 5324 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000079bf.bin
6e69e42fb04bc536d4fdddae5c90969048c65f10bff9cb92b931c0d91ce7385e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79BF 9532 bytes