Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f596da5bec78c0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-07-31 07:23:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 288314c699ec8a0610c10873d901f9f0 SHA-1: c191a52ff49b905dca1aea0c4be6fe547d961987 SHA-256: 2f596da5bec78c0cfec8ff21cd4e8bc3b2999365bfeb97bfdac34fe29cdd3786
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com, ultimately redirecting to a malicious URL on ttraff.cc. This indicates a social engineering attack designed to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the observed link farm and redirector behavior.

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=amsterdam+travel+guide+pdf
    • http://files.mikaylareid.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969639/mirar_puxazemiliviz_wujawo_guduboro.pdf
    • http://files.echo-alpha.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738484/3845343.pdf
    • http://files.adrienneisakovic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452976/govexapujozo-jolofob-murekumavewukej-sivaxanuzimiz.pdf
    • http://files.oliefshop.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874240/notulokeke_wapegi_venikozuzudu.pdf
    • http://files.ambleandwarkworthrotary.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856285/bokivolifaruro-fipelu-tolenemosa.pdf
    • http://files.adrienneisakovic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452976/govexapujozo-jolofob-murekumavewukej-sivaxa
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4472/4133/files/53942307117.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7122/5494/files/86202309366.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/58097506778.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zupapinited.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0140/4830/files/65605156108.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0401/0389/files/gometizo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8552/1311/files/wujiromijigegavaxalez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4205/4048/files/4154809790.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6084/7007/files/20130191797.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4677/3660/files/xufusalabolisunekuzezeb.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_off000079e8.bin
255aa3a8053ed0def305b0543a44a8593c24a1262e1188736d9884c6bcf3b47c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79E8 5076 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008b2f.bin
a24c29500f856e7091fa964253388b7dcc6275a4a5dfc3784ba04edaa7105a68
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B2F 10260 bytes