Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40cec597cf9c13e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.2 KB Created: 2020-08-18 21:57:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e7cd8d8491ca5133a0e46f761c4006d8 SHA-1: d2c8e75b15c8247b1d43edf93707797b0627f6d3 SHA-256: 40cec597cf9c13e9eb223a1439f5737b359f573c9e92fa8278665d1dfa20cb12
154 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, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=chemistry+review+book+answer+key'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a 'chemistry review book answer key'. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify domains. The primary intent appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via a deceptive lure.

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=chemistry+review+book+answer+key
    • http://mujimil.oldepearprimitives.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814674/5930343.pdf
    • http://files.xmelox.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683088/totabu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2353/2195/files/79341701132.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0705/7825/files/website_design_documentation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1498/7674/files/81958494445.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8691/3437/files/exclamation_mark_on_photos_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1769/7437/files/charamsukh_episode_6_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5915/1009/files/92916867081.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8587/9713/files/joverima.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9639/1323/files/zewodanozabividudagimaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7900/7398/files/29943414750.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0453/6372/4443/files/30632625476.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2117/1879/files/dudetefodani.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000067ff.bin
39c50339c6918b9bf28697fea1fd8c2cb7c275ee1ed1feede19d6a7dc4dd0c0f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67FF 5256 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000079c9.bin
25365d1639adecf3384c0b1c926458e97b86b7bba34bc407bce822a2be7ad366
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79C9 10648 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009e46.bin
2a5f1667c2e343500efde63e3dd6a136498333968b1680966ac5eb34589f1174
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E46 16144 bytes