Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffa0ac1534c42885…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.1 KB Created: 2020-08-17 05:14:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f0734c2c11fddf0b35667aaf9006887a SHA-1: 3d3559af190bf94f67026c4fec741e4dc134f597 SHA-256: ffa0ac1534c42885ba54952872e031652520e1791d2a2452e126120b9ff74964
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with the primary one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a 'plant ecology lab report' lure, which is then linked to the malicious URL. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the PDF structure points to a link farm designed to distribute malicious content.

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.ru/pify?keyword=plant+ecology+lab+report
    • http://files.lenoxjudaica.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303118/ecb7b7f87ae5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3260/0985/files/pebizulogesoxop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3706/4344/files/rutazel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9423/7589/files/descargar_cancioneros_para_guitarra_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9243/4334/files/pakobofuru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9400/7201/files/browser_language_codes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8393/2582/files/makekefa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4042/1541/files/chief_keef_song_downloads.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/97253363073.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5989/5717/files/biraj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7372/3800/files/rabenupaxokagavidi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3748/2405/files/34305844583.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8660/1635/files/activities_of_daily_living_list.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_off00007b8e.bin
a31c707a52698c3dc5bbd317bb120efa6af9ef11a0558f3d33b2189b2c5615fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B8E 5168 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008d2e.bin
eba2a9039e16d24d352ea8872889d307d59f7d605e757f730255aa5d862bb37e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D2E 10040 bytes