Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e58a419869e125f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.0 KB Created: 2020-08-01 16:59:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1833c1814dada31f5f325d17ae31c09f SHA-1: d43dc7216adf64569f13dc1f2fbce332ef719381 SHA-256: 4e58a419869e125f2395af6e57668e6a63d7e26bcfde92ea0e65e50987f225cf
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) and a link farm hosted on Shopify. The document body text, while obfuscated, contains keywords related to a manual, likely a lure. The primary malicious activity observed is the redirection to external, potentially harmful, URLs.

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=whirlpool+quiet+partner+iii+manual
    • http://files.morethansoulfood.net/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302973/timuf.pdf
    • http://files.refreshingsprings-mcpcusa.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739021/telukunewofagu-pirizudufidem.pdf
    • http://files.opunakesurflifesaving.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814513/gezitowejukejekojuko.pdf
    • http://files.witchspyramidmagazine.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856276/72936.pdf
    • http://files.culverleygreen.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482939/4212379.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7853/3788/files/97576344002.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0210/9856/files/19365578630.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7870/4536/files/kayla_itsines_bikini_body_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sexewagufik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8029/5334/files/xerivinivobixomigid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7578/8188/files/aerodynamics_for_engineers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9378/6791/files/gabibevosetimegodep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6396/7906/files/99190789074.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5752/1574/files/49767598915.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9875/0629/files/melefizigadilogijud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9087/7339/files/tikezivifulovovezorud.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_off00004947.bin
b33ee3ac99fddac33856fab1d173b0427c17b9690cdde97a444bf155e4d488b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4947 5020 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005a3a.bin
2aa879790edb811db218919df3841ff7a1823cfb3c026fd7d289ae2c9c82f637
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A3A 9664 bytes