Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 752b29c4038ec1a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.1 KB Created: 2020-08-05 07:18:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 21cd1aabd08b807d17140b001325695f SHA-1: 676153898c4820906ee93fa1810a7a17aebf04f9 SHA-256: 752b29c4038ec1a9cd62b3cc90bff330fdbf02a2a2d17df4e4a785b8b4efeef1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics indicating malicious redirection and a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains numerous embedded URLs, with the primary suspicious URL being https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=icao+annex+5+pdf, which is likely a redirector to a malicious site. The presence of a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a tactic to obscure the final malicious destination.

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=icao+annex+5+pdf
    • http://zotow.mrscooke.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606260/8803219.pdf
    • http://files.kileykellermeyer.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453753/2190707.pdf
    • http://files.sagireconsultingfirm.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874554/1819056.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9722/6402/files/72939681083.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3041/2437/files/rowolutisaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4670/6088/files/85184442714.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1396/3929/files/enlace_quimico_ionico_y_covalente.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9122/1911/files/tapuriwejorawagasome.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5714/4230/files/kolaroji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7433/8472/files/kanunadadizikekodad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4397/0463/files/different_types_of_seismic_waves.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/norojakibi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3199/3242/files/rupesusuxesapeloj.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_off00004915.bin
2c419362d01d4e7d9d64791f54aec6605c56d6d52740bc2eaab593124f4879e7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4915 4972 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005a25.bin
650a766ad394194fa601b7534d58583c1bd19390a78146ae5a6c07dc902794a5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A25 9960 bytes