Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cbd37d13c6ab211…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-08-07 20:48:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eb32e1cea37347bc7edce219ad51e943 SHA-1: af710324e0ebd5a8adede58834ae65e585458027 SHA-256: 4cbd37d13c6ab211bd07a7ba8579ff3561c288083da379224258bdac414196a2
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 many links pointing to Shopify domains, a common tactic for SEO poisoning. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=forward+and+reverse+bias+characteristics+of+p+n+junction+diode+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure.

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=forward+and+reverse+bias+characteristics+of+p+n+junction+diode+pdf
    • http://wodugo.dancebaltimore.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682989/2f00791991.pdf
    • http://files.cookingwithkoko.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873983/7790490.pdf
    • http://files.alenaephotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409024/4f4c7c886c6b965.pdf
    • http://files.walkerorchestra.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775865/df9ad1d7cb4.pdf
    • http://files.myallscent.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606260/5535500.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6993/1673/files/zajasesoxudir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9348/1885/files/91541355200.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9262/2998/files/fiwopuxodiromedipikexusip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4314/4355/files/figalobatozatatalubo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6736/5794/files/48865968231.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0385/3469/files/tamabiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/56655156305.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6911/1461/files/83670620126.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4655/2230/files/25989183002.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5453/0709/files/nibidu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3683/4968/files/zabupulul.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_off00006f06.bin
727a22d59d362112c81497bec9c240f7a9eda690abe9a7fb66635357247b42d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F06 5536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000081eb.bin
f406926daec019042e6b92188b6d8939d0302445ba812cc84cd8a27bd6f23706
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81EB 9960 bytes