Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50426fd1cbe3fca6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-08-06 22:41:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fa3d7c457fa1177039109db256c120ea SHA-1: 456e02ce9145b550a69ab2bd265ef8832632d1f0 SHA-256: 50426fd1cbe3fca60f75373ad4cfdd903b4262e2ac9e11123e475ebf1b50a8de
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 link farm infrastructure. The primary redirector URL is 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=constant+velocity+joint+vs+universal+joint+pdf', which is flagged as malicious. This suggests the document's purpose is to lure users into clicking these links, potentially leading them to malicious websites or further malware downloads. 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=constant+velocity+joint+vs+universal+joint+pdf
    • http://files.prebleswcd.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454521/numepivenuwurij.pdf
    • http://files.rdatechnologies.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407233/novatimidujiz.pdf
    • http://files.hwcraft-gifts.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813736/81fd2bb88760.pdf
    • http://panesudo.anacmcinerney.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740435/4576730.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6193/5261/files/nukibes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4381/4560/files/95828914074.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5806/9655/files/60948562621.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8022/9791/files/67047943485.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2145/8853/files/sajufidalurupukakiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0610/7552/files/xogunapanidiwagotifem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8030/3270/files/nozezarexabuzomikajuxol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4299/5367/files/xenavif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8648/6440/files/mipobilerenezeragejo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6579/4965/files/sanizosapow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5152/4008/files/35935614471.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1848/5923/files/how_to_update_chrome_components.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_off00006f8e.bin
c57c786d2f1f03bda94758608df3590a4e641df0e6eb5cce11264524b9f33e80
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F8E 5292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000081ad.bin
9480bf5093d3b8cb38886cf111aacae930fc82435f3b88ab0b30490352b6a570
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81AD 9968 bytes