Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0209f4ab917a6feb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.1 KB Created: 2020-08-26 16:16:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 04d11ed97fc7949f2be32cee2075753c SHA-1: 885a531bca9ccc80d5ebcd578a3cfa6dbd31e69f SHA-256: 0209f4ab917a6febf6cae565a3ebb89cf842ce26738c240206f0dae44e403229
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains embedded links that lead to a redirector service, which in turn points to further PDF files hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious link is `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=sun+sahiba+sun+mp3+download`, which is designed to appear as a legitimate download. The heuristic `PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK` confirms the malicious nature of this redirector. The presence of numerous external links suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic.

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/pify?keyword=sun+sahiba+sun+mp3+download
    • http://komatevos.sardishenderson.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775274/122989.pdf
    • http://puzege.phisigmapidavis.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379730/sujipijelenewurex.pdf
    • http://files.cheryltesslersolit.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437330/8349585.pdf
    • http://files.rileystack.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712206/ropot.pdf
    • http://nipurupik.eclmediation.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482975/859a205d971591e.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7451/9194/files/28707249318.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2716/1507/files/kaloxizobebimew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5805/9674/files/companies_acceptance_of_deposit_rules_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/13164506765.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5743/1199/files/addition_and_subtraction_word_problems_worksheets_for_grade_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7196/2265/files/dewopamiwom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3018/4098/files/25078858802.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3400/7973/files/80540303113.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9649/6544/files/87349739857.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1415/2607/files/xebabes.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005369.bin
49976d4583d3a39a098aaed06ef6a23c630cfdc38662be0f335e4dd0780765be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5369 5604 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006650.bin
5a4d4b01916f8f22b8f39ed4a9f4e3936dba2484768533afa546a5db7b3bb335
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6650 11004 bytes