Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3679e0ba236b4ae1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-06 16:52:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3093c3f4e11d0dac8ef7b8e7a6587f7c SHA-1: 29b060940b4285b6af69c7966132dd3adf3a7b0e SHA-256: 3679e0ba236b4ae109599f790f78c5a1491a5310a50f54a3afdde6dc4b7cd5c4
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=overcoming+anorexia+nervosa+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites. Additionally, a PDF link farm heuristic suggests the document is part of a larger SEO manipulation effort to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector is sufficient evidence for the attack pattern.

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=overcoming+anorexia+nervosa+pdf
    • http://files.exeterbathrooms.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483830/c5281394be4c6.pdf
    • http://basug.bostonhughes.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969060/09e7c8.pdf
    • http://files.nphsjrwolfpack.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483253/pageponiputi_gosalobire_vopepas_fatibo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/aircraft_performance_and_design_anderson.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6492/6111/files/70070331409.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5892/0605/files/lesef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9019/8180/files/adjectives_and_prepositions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2546/4476/files/furenokojoxulosifonuru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1246/4535/files/kannada_folk_songs_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2135/3635/files/zaremibanaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/bewewolifokolugetu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2604/6362/files/brazen_and_the_beast.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8438/9275/files/48840212222.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/4364/6614/files/salesforce_tutorial_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1470/9663/files/birekifaxusup.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_off000065f9.bin
5182d19707403868b0db78e073e867d19464eebba2e9d1147611c5b71e04c060
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65F9 5596 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007903.bin
fa1a4547af4a4837c5783f9df80bbe7546d961d55568228a8fc1794905ec3596
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7903 10040 bytes