Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 302661f2abc7b6a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.2 KB Created: 2020-08-14 16:52:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 122296bb984a2bdda9e3fcbe1bc87379 SHA-1: 8b75836bf5b3376498bfbdbf8c4fa9ab341de2c8 SHA-256: 302661f2abc7b6a60a614886057f9b9b4c4708220db2d4ffa4e63b2151586a21
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=blades+of+brim+app'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, with numerous links to PDFs hosted on Shopify, some of which are unknown reputation. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and several other PDF links, suggesting a lure to external content that ultimately leads to malicious infrastructure.

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=blades+of+brim+app
    • http://files.everyday-regalia.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813988/1278045.pdf
    • http://xuxiriv.marketing-truth.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407493/927d0374.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6844/8151/files/zilean_build_aram.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2161/5772/files/86556574461.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8669/1998/files/catholic_teaching_on_purgatory.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tikifulodu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2341/6995/files/wumigapi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4170/2567/files/457826561.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4906/6397/files/67196473061.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4946/0636/files/activity_diagram_in_uml.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5673/4109/files/79941377456.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6633/6167/files/44731626136.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/96672573922.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_off00005bc4.bin
6fd13cb0bd8235e5a213697cc8a396b40e135313c3bd1bc7989ccd23d4da0e97
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BC4 5376 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006de7.bin
99a8a336ac3ea0e5c3e55630571739898bf69832e556b677bdc1a700e2e82a6a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DE7 9956 bytes