Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e48af4d6c5cc554…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.2 KB Created: 2020-08-24 02:06:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: decfea84672aa2a9bc5ffc88b8a1ffa6 SHA-1: fd0e0cc2a791b358fd3e654c7e0e71ca6df84441 SHA-256: 3e48af4d6c5cc554a144caa5946954733e2ea0066262c47ddb953c0566dbaf32
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=anamika+song+by+arijit+singh'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other links pointing to Shopify-hosted PDF files. The primary attack pattern appears to be the distribution of a large number of links, likely to manipulate search engine results or to redirect users to malicious content.

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.com/pify?keyword=anamika+song+by+arijit+singh
    • http://files.vogue-fit.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380754/ratedozuzawe.pdf
    • http://jukeb.beauty-by-bree.net/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815002/ee49b1a0ff1.pdf
    • http://files.thetravelingartistconsortium.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637257/6384407.pdf
    • http://fifeb.bridgetbuildscharacter.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740249/93fe207e5a.pdf
    • http://files.judykitsunestudio.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682048/a33641.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6955/5359/files/65211739091.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5052/3031/files/mawiminujudujixo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2862/6080/files/kijajesuzav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3389/2763/files/51315067725.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6616/2341/files/15215077524.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6221/3273/files/il_barbiere_di_siviglia_libretto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8377/4614/files/barreras_arancelarias.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2732/3301/files/gusutabuguzoma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/9039/6582/files/evernote_premium_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6585/8455/files/visual_data_analysis_techniques.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_off000048a2.bin
5bbca072e0acdba7efa3829116fa258e88ac3536ebb8035c8eabade5835eca63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x48A2 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005aff.bin
ee884ab439bb7589b9eb7d6afc45d88504b25b58dd7ee5358aec0318a76057dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AFF 13932 bytes