Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2419bb47bd4eb212…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.2 KB Created: 2020-07-31 14:03:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2e3e5330f6145ced27d6b51c717f73d4 SHA-1: 493b67494a8c02b41c7f431b156a4edb1a3e98ba SHA-256: 2419bb47bd4eb212facb822e51c1371acc211994313c8dc4a1a9ed7d9143a5c4
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector (ttraff.cc). The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the heuristics confirm the presence of a malicious redirector and a link farm, suggesting a lure to external 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=angle+of+repose+pdf
    • http://files.ict-makers.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871642/adf3c.pdf
    • http://files.whatthefoodfilm.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411857/kikapipegejudu_barosenojiz_vuxigigalivivoz.pdf
    • http://files.brooksfrederickson.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710780/5908293.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5362/8062/files/99074086859.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5492/3925/files/65585361936.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6690/9081/files/gakiwufonetalexizifeduzuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3416/4893/files/54738004426.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0790/0835/files/64517058155.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8974/0441/files/37291683158.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9201/7305/files/vanogufagojewis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7839/3749/files/monalidorefefebogimasoni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2805/4169/files/28087455202.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6647/5174/files/33740327047.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7225/7181/files/zarolapapemeveli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9258/2293/files/7633192682.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007b89.bin
a9da0e7640bce6aa24c104c462b342cd09f00afd5c0d3c503447d93c5785029a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B89 4648 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008b59.bin
0b8d6281358ee8928ebeb6f062fe6d99dad0fc54e2ee291d4bab7e01b7a2ff09
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B59 10324 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000aeea.bin
35d3440dae1ebc896564e4e6f70ea95aa3a30a1ac603c7fffbb21b68b8b72e2f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEEA 16036 bytes