Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50bf90e7b91686df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.2 KB Created: 2020-08-23 13:46:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e1fa82d30e5cbeb0c579ccb5a1041aef SHA-1: 4456a92e2d94cb525f869823c3fd0a7be70b6974 SHA-256: 50bf90e7b91686df81c3cce9d23caf53882edd6388b0c4c1a8a981c8e8f4b5b7
154 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 pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=modern+forms+avant+garde+sconce'. This indicates a link farm or redirection strategy to obscure the final malicious destination. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=modern+forms+avant+garde+sconce
    • http://files.oceaneyessupply.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856492/2581572.pdf
    • http://ligus.heathergeoffrey.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302870/165b9f5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5097/5910/files/56315141832.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7108/5475/files/neopets_coconut_shy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2077/1750/files/39111231823.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0718/0954/files/11406199228.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1739/5614/files/10688539000.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/5151/0936/files/63163047251.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9340/2524/files/jesamadam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6656/4507/files/electron_configuration_and_orbital_diagram_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4479/8613/files/kajowu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4877/2508/files/87200494591.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/6676/0856/files/22865152567.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7784/2584/files/kuratonadusominekapi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6658/1407/files/transformations_of_graphs_of_linear_functions_worksheet.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_off00005250.bin
ad8723df2fe3d49e63c970c59c7f035989adf5aa88d349fd8cb96ec139e4ebcb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5250 5372 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006491.bin
2bf64e0020fc9f88fe4659a5ed1a9d6bd51ba85890353831fccc3da4e7818502
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6491 10464 bytes