Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d23368b7001143a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.1 KB Created: 2020-07-31 20:28:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f8470bc7ff308ce0afd7d174416495c7 SHA-1: 8431dacf9250360ecfff3b15afffb37e61c0bbe7 SHA-256: 4d23368b7001143ad526f2b7a51eab4f45170f37826900cec17e69c9bfe20e06
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=heartless+kanye+west+mp3', which is presented as content related to 'Heartless Kanye West mp3'. The document also features a large number of links to other PDFs hosted on Shopify, likely as part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML classifier 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.com/pify?keyword=heartless+kanye+west+mp3
    • http://files.palabra.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606984/zirefipun.pdf
    • http://files.troutbum.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398139/detuwifufu.pdf
    • http://files.carburettormagazine.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874180/74fe46ef14a.pdf
    • http://files.emmanuellebeautysalon-spa.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164016/letokamizobine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3854/6840/files/7140496662.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wiwatubaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2940/4567/files/70140059182.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4695/9261/files/19838961290.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2648/9249/files/dexanilas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5863/4658/files/67287221979.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/5578033559.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0577/7832/files/36312181857.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8368/5270/files/sovifofogo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2338/4219/files/73850192110.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4975/2478/files/nuporiterun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7230/6846/files/1993379255.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_off00008568.bin
f25b245d5a60e612fc8b7b02d1c79220713f18d958d78d91e52ca860fa70928b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8568 4980 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000964b.bin
cc27c1c30b08199c939067a23314c07a16b0db30ccac60f55e0b6956a5257020
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x964B 14948 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000c4b4.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4B4 4324 bytes