Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f9b4040a2f5703f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-12 10:46:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c8fb6846bb72ed2d8d4d38b2b3e7bcf6 SHA-1: 2fef3ede03f5a76f6f2de7a222e34a5e90a1b895 SHA-256: 1f9b4040a2f5703f721abc4a4731604abd27768870c870c22860e5992a65c990
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=application+letter+sample+pdf+free+download'. This URL is presented within the document body, suggesting a social engineering lure to trick users into downloading potentially malicious content. The presence of numerous other links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed for SEO manipulation to attract unsuspecting users. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=application+letter+sample+pdf+free+download
    • http://files.interactivetutors.hk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454816/xukasawewopegib.pdf
    • http://files.manilajiva.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695302/489bccbf825.pdf
    • http://files.meandyouspa.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871704/4a0b0fe51a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8918/3398/files/19170511541.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7079/8489/files/tezafimewapagefufamev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3118/3016/files/calculus_textbook_solutions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1240/7967/files/jatavawowowogo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0097/8853/files/centurion_d5_evo_gate_motor_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6180/4198/files/8732852178.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5560/4134/files/ayurvedic_upchar_in_gujarati.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9722/6402/files/tojijutejabusekope.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9442/4232/files/71095322486.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4346/9974/files/66781486299.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5166/3012/files/kitubesuponidexapasu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5127/0815/files/bcps_calendar_2020_19.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_off00006118.bin
081def8481e69b1073704328407909d9018233aa5a2af8f7ccacf3cfba6f171e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6118 5384 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007353.bin
38d07fce15893b016f1bbb6aa937a5741c41ce37116762fbd13c57a6698a9cc9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7353 10572 bytes