Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50115b3b3cfe7f99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-08 05:08:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2426709ab8e8c3faa04772c132c25a3a SHA-1: 84408290876d4d4431407be8394f7304b2f2410f SHA-256: 50115b3b3cfe7f999214f7df95f2294c89331be88d33acb381a760524d287d60
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=vernier+caliper+experiment+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm with numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body contains obfuscated text and the malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to lure 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=vernier+caliper+experiment+pdf
    • http://files.inbetweenitall.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969334/mapoxeneta.pdf
    • http://files.robertdickstudionyc.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871729/sanitorirowipevadu.pdf
    • http://files.macscanteen.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813851/55d80b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2943/8370/files/bamokufomobipapatufoti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2174/5822/files/73969043156.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0524/5597/files/hydrogen_bonding_in_organic_chemistry.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1317/6469/files/surah_yasin_jakim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8733/1481/files/ncert_english_book_for_class_9_solutions_beehive_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4713/1035/files/10th_new_syllabus_science_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3784/9762/files/belagav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1687/0309/files/sojufujo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3942/3655/files/metarokilafufifazare.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_off0000619f.bin
085890bf7aff3523eeadf2613fcc0352c1992be180949345ba13bb8f1bb8fdcc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x619F 5156 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007322.bin
d7216af1571a07c3c512e48c4fe3142df3cf10a0841b9289df6df18dda176b73
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7322 10356 bytes