Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41bdbb274f37dd79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.6 KB Created: 2020-08-20 14:56:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 29f95a3e270fd1311b3dbf25add9718f SHA-1: a8db9a6e6d8f02aea200c790c1e9af280d149b8c SHA-256: 41bdbb274f37dd796c934d3f1819ef5103ad05016d45e3b9d3777bbbed5dd3d4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The embedded URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=birthday+invitations+text+templates', is the primary indicator of malicious intent, likely serving as a lure for further malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other links, reinforcing the phishing pretext. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=birthday+invitations+text+templates
    • http://xoniv.virginiabeachneurofeedback.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740805/423057.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0586/9213/files/aravali_express_19707_andheri_platform.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8173/6096/files/blank_calendar_template_dec_2019.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9258/2293/files/97119822399.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/98153809917.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4953/3088/files/saburujowizatigilo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1239/9010/files/fovonez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7716/3426/files/suwiwaxujijoxigunimijak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7258/4870/files/niwiwafofaxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7302/7749/files/21677454034.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3942/3655/files/xixinosogavug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4324/9576/files/no_more_excuses_brian_tracy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5477/5970/files/rfp_response_examples.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_off000045cb.bin
b4930c28d77b9e327df1cede798b1926bf08ae5cf7aecd23833c27b739ac0c2d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x45CB 5476 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000584e.bin
e8aefc0d69ce178ee9a03d2b6766cfefc22a904e7863e4fb6a3e5691c27b8204
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x584E 9772 bytes