Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e76c252c6c26ff8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.1 KB Created: 2020-08-19 23:15:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e8dea9a6219c1ae323a06b456dbdc792 SHA-1: 548565a545efe72edada9fdc3c24a81295bb0dc1 SHA-256: 3e76c252c6c26ff8c4d268990ed7c875576c51c1fd73254f108e1e3d7df3c1b8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, forming a link farm. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=carnivores+ice+age+for+pc', points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body is heavily obfuscated but contains references to the malicious URL and other PDF files hosted on Shopify. This suggests a campaign to lure users to malicious sites via a large number of seemingly benign links, ultimately leading to a malicious payload or phishing page.

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=carnivores+ice+age+for+pc
    • http://files.jennifermclayton.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681928/7837438.pdf
    • http://files.mischiefprojections.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070356/nijabowowaduwus.pdf
    • http://files.meherbabaartconnection.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437657/gapemerenujigoz_duxugiguwam_lawefafiwumofa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7597/4821/files/novebegopemagosofitib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4705/0661/files/xisamamojufubajozadigaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0066/8065/files/fobuvati.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1470/1735/files/semiconductor_device_fundamentals_robert_f._pierret.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6694/9786/files/oxford_dictionary_of_physics_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6187/7665/files/78021765765.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3581/9173/files/12383559463.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4432/8856/files/87428665624.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0978/5499/files/basic_russian_words.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_off000053e0.bin
d1e344cb62a701416ffddba98bf4286a9ff2491256fc98800fcf7044f1a69405
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53E0 5116 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006567.bin
1a85f44816d794b441c4817f18df1a4d4add399008b2cd6efbf780f6d625e98a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6567 10120 bytes