Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cb293d46d118c8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-08-23 14:18:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 17893c802c3b4eaca8090ae61a82f0a9 SHA-1: c9edd6cd4cabb9b2b78b007d08ad0306ab78f08d SHA-256: 3cb293d46d118c8f35c13cbf955d9df3cc1d1ac78bc2beb15ab4d6620332ddbb
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the suspicious URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=brawlhalla+cross+platform+nintendo+switch', which is a known malicious redirector. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially leverage benign-looking domains for distribution.

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=brawlhalla+cross+platform+nintendo+switch
    • http://files.betsygiberson.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380107/xobekarowaruwatadeb.pdf
    • http://gipemezi.wcsuticklab.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070450/gazuzavonanogip-putisowanowu-jatobawaji-jerukoz.pdf
    • http://files.breadventuresnj.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438490/6a3ad36885deef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2041/9226/files/psc_bulletin_december_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8804/4442/files/tasagiromukoxeba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0390/3127/files/amoeba_sisters_video_recap_enzymes_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7001/3086/files/54699131641.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2603/7411/files/nsk_needle_roller_bearing_catalogue.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9066/3832/files/zipuniva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0124/0985/files/13868992331.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8180/1629/files/27113839056.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6124/7129/files/jexuritizutolelasifuzomi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8937/9993/files/gogovidiwafodazagapukiw.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_off000061ed.bin
f9a73f8b1ee0a64dc86af946dfb55a4c01912551721be32ce58f215d63132ecb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61ED 5536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074a2.bin
55631ff4348149b404d3e42f133eb35176054b78c9bd2e9d42c528dbfbc030d9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74A2 14956 bytes