Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5584c7601e171d2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.3 KB Created: 2020-08-09 14:38:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: efe253eaea5631cd3cc24d1cff19a740 SHA-1: 25b489c35ed28259017674861a8aaa3fd6bc008a SHA-256: 5584c7601e171d2fd97fe980d168e9ca631f4525accee12d9c40eff475f09a34
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm. The embedded URL `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=angular+flex+layout+tutorial+pdf` is identified as a malicious redirector. The document also contains numerous links to PDFs hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm intended to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. 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=angular+flex+layout+tutorial+pdf
    • http://zipete.jacquelinesalvador.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383791/lorufemerugubo.pdf
    • http://files.onevoicemusicfaithweb.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380032/kojawezonibikape.pdf
    • http://files.authorlaurenpichon.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814687/ca0d82f9f71a.pdf
    • http://files.edibledreamworks.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776386/c989d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2425/9992/files/zujovowowejomi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9522/6523/files/sylgar_s_guide_to_everything_else.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4387/2150/files/37544457945.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6706/1910/files/learning_c_programming_with_unity3d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1596/1762/files/31102402991.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5276/8151/files/desedokokofowovubumal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0775/2866/files/10_pin_shuffle.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7247/1715/files/47220570349.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3863/0300/files/discovering_the_jewish_jesus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5897/8207/files/jogebapajad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1095/6196/files/barcarolle_offenbach_piano.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_off0000755c.bin
67b4f61f6fb47a05f6a146476dd067a41613c693accb53c0e8e6045c502d166a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x755C 5188 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008728.bin
f001c4f15ceb1b5c04fd358cd644349283051b16b6eb0a4ef56fd3f36eb4b104
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8728 15868 bytes