Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d87e1dc9134eb03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-08-04 02:00:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 29c8cf4126dc9d1eb3037b90aa70a77d SHA-1: 6c35227651203f29eebbe58dbbbc5ec0e9965898 SHA-256: 3d87e1dc9134eb030272026fc3ba3e3a4ed41ed714cb0dd7125254ade0c37866
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, a technique often used to create link farms for SEO poisoning or to host malicious content. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=categorical+syllogism+pdf'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body itself appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, but the presence of numerous links, including the malicious redirector, strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

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=categorical+syllogism+pdf
    • http://lofapu.skycampgreenwich.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776644/wewapezexupafur.pdf
    • http://files.senandsons.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695568/ca2b1c8beb.pdf
    • http://files.bribierslfishingclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637553/jagabutibekiwa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7664/0156/files/vsftpd_config_file.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/1261535930.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2468/7014/files/39673737040.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7735/4143/files/soxenererubopixagitij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/83406059157.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8804/4442/files/48903686451.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4248/6934/files/zedowuraxefunibufi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4904/1563/files/gixojuzabupupaderojubuxeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1116/1768/files/86627424807.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5944/3862/files/risolimalaxigube.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6623/7852/files/9811751340.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_off000068e9.bin
2d9ea2876f6c17fde75c59ba56c170ef33b280852478e802aed23e01df9b7e1c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68E9 5484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b85.bin
216de2e20864503c70430821a1943f3f6c6b95f2b75450c400cf95db4c30e3d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B85 12216 bytes