Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 765bda9f8a5af10a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.6 KB Created: 2020-08-18 21:02:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3b18ff01613e3f44dac9bdbcec846fb8 SHA-1: 9a381d1ef9279444655ecb838a044853b325765e SHA-256: 765bda9f8a5af10a15d716c992d5ad1a0f518d9977b44613bcbff44d5849bab6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which are disguised as PDF files hosted on various domains, including Shopify. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=badshah+hussain+mp4+free', is flagged as malicious. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign designed to redirect users to malicious content. 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.com/pify?keyword=badshah+hussain+mp4+free
    • http://vikitug.pdsummit.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438641/9788163.pdf
    • http://files.cycleworxflitwick.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606819/9013130.pdf
    • http://torap.lemomentpatisserie.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071157/radekejap.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7113/6154/files/davezerus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8570/1019/files/zosurozukosuwubekese.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6858/8194/files/44499471575.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3752/2082/files/sulebizuduvumudokapalodex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9705/4631/files/difference_between_float_and_double.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5676/6869/files/jolemepifidowirapewulagit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1077/6473/files/academy_of_management_annals.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/4377/8723/files/aim_aeronautical_information_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5576/6942/files/72400419086.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3979/1003/files/lududesi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7084/9181/files/74878861073.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1959/9004/files/85354510642.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004db4.bin
efbbdf7b4c0482d802f601affb5122fa13070bad2af186d31298679e2a89a992
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4DB4 5384 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005fd6.bin
3048400c52043d7c2986cde336d4752526d3fd20c94f5c4409ae4912ef38d8ab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FD6 9772 bytes