Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02e8e38b717bdc09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-06 03:58:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 52d1b6aee38399ea94c3523981a7852e SHA-1: eb7e8601ad942e967dc645905e1aba14c035b9c0 SHA-256: 02e8e38b717bdc09dac7c231c51545d393a5b58ad60cd2bac153e355c5cafea9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=brain+anatomy+atlas+pdf', leads to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other Shopify URLs, indicating a lure to potentially 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.cc/pify?keyword=brain+anatomy+atlas+pdf
    • http://dereve.beyondprocess.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738731/5466975.pdf
    • http://files.eduardoprado.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775792/63b2c0cbdd1.pdf
    • http://files.1stgradespanishtrack.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070171/riwof_sisevigixev_zifikilomuta.pdf
    • http://zafabefaw.dirtypawprintsaussies.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453060/4049bb531e7fc1.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6785/9359/files/30479858998.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2103/2859/files/59862671355.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9110/7742/files/sexal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8784/7843/files/53849504162.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/17810153535.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7230/7875/files/kesij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1345/6550/files/nupipijaguxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2883/0625/files/depufaxegafemi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4656/8098/files/sepemojogez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2976/6039/files/28277607955.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4257/0402/files/farexajoparuxesoviz.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_off00006166.bin
3656b7a3fc5298539965ef6774fb64d5de5e2aed980765b41bec2ab3150fa5e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6166 5336 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000737e.bin
051cf792a3fb2abf8021c8f1f8bf594c5ca30a738e7cb3879b3dfaa026332acc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x737E 9824 bytes