Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5104a1a1a99ba7e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.0 KB Created: 2020-08-17 07:37:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 25bd779439931766060f8bb58033e1cd SHA-1: c051a3a78183bbb90a339f217842b3bf0728892e SHA-256: 5104a1a1a99ba7e09e759bc9cef370cc0287db28bb92925749f8f567e8b367e3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=anacardium+occidentale+pdf, which is a known malicious redirector. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggests a tactic to distribute malicious content or phish users by overwhelming them with options or disguising malicious links among benign ones. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=anacardium+occidentale+pdf
    • http://files.waterselementary.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739393/0847e5683b13.pdf
    • http://files.chrisdufala.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681452/f4a21e25.pdf
    • http://files.justgobarefoot.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813301/bamibuvag.pdf
    • http://xadaxo.unger-artistrees.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739564/9427765.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1540/5725/files/fevedavulaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2422/0321/files/94255317067.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9725/8136/files/conversation_lessons_esl.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3747/4466/files/8460368532.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2762/0249/files/49638669918.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5824/9376/files/rupadutoro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5552/9640/files/57378841218.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9334/3899/files/venebitoviluvenuzipigide.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_off0000b617.bin
be83c7953614dad7ee50162c2084858418507fa13347af05ce38c2482612dfcf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB617 5112 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c75c.bin
335bb272dcdeedba807f1e9aab315bd6279410ab6f0f1c1765dfc3cdb5612f4d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC75C 12588 bytes