Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 411e8422cc0275dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.5 KB Created: 2020-07-31 23:41:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d13fa59ac1a2a42635a82d325e316494 SHA-1: 037dfdf582804b0f60869de1d1e946f95115aa91 SHA-256: 411e8422cc0275dc8b2cada13b0aebf719e970565abb64c5f43aeeff7b4d143b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=line+6+fbv+shortboard+mk1+manual'. This indicates a clear intent to redirect the user to a potentially harmful destination. The presence of a large number of external PDF links also suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility and traffic 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=line+6+fbv+shortboard+mk1+manual
    • http://files.washk12wellness.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070597/lowadipuriviwufupiz.pdf
    • http://files.hippovalley.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163533/6804981.pdf
    • http://files.profitdrivercrm.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813510/8948190.pdf
    • http://files.powerofbankinginyourhands.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682919/3411665.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4352/0665/files/22733062250.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9019/8180/files/60209370556.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2462/1473/files/8992076805.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2492/3298/files/wamelagoselifonid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2496/2968/files/69307106829.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0595/2671/files/98865828345.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6598/9530/files/62239655298.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7677/9174/files/jotin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8890/3325/files/38316882757.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9683/4212/files/pavalo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3229/0215/files/99842035204.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_off000046d9.bin
04e94c7c6fec739a0d1287d7bdcbe8bde1b59c4ac5ba927594407e166670c6f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46D9 5556 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000059a1.bin
bcfc599b612ac8045553bab5330714b5384349840873a6cfc3affe47d257d0d2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59A1 9344 bytes