Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c162f8f61b748ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.6 KB Created: 2020-08-08 10:22:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 20df0c1345fd2bdb8df2da223d997d93 SHA-1: f39995e9ccf9a17ca5c497c3b45ab983ebb69876 SHA-256: 7c162f8f61b748bab1b2ed90c0559fbda4239c9450e5b2b2e7e2a8ebe9502184
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=el+camino+del+artista+pdf+download'. This URL is presented within the document body, suggesting a social engineering lure to trick users into clicking and potentially downloading further malware. The PDF also contains a mass external PDF link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation to increase visibility of malicious content.

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=el+camino+del+artista+pdf+download
    • http://files.kingsporthorses.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383553/1742861.pdf
    • http://files.missourifertility.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740524/wivuw-kudewaxitikode-xalifidunagina-wedebub.pdf
    • http://files.yanktonfamilyvisitation.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738620/zenipipokuvevevamuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8737/1171/files/68800386390.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3039/6574/files/awk_programming_language_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4356/1373/files/53510629532.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3019/7910/files/nudilumodilenepof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7314/2935/files/baixar_o_livro_capitaes_de_areia_em.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9682/6273/files/59974224063.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6621/2003/files/65301489491.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3857/1670/files/atomos_shogun_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4227/4471/files/que_es_el_cerebro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0608/2717/files/sc_sharma_accountancy_class_12_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8026/9462/files/59663248824.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_off0001a6c4.bin
241156ea2336243aa033904d34743c2ced5ce5bdc9079acda82de6b3f3bdb3d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A6C4 5352 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001b8f4.bin
9304e5b2affc9df0e6a170aa1bd65847100c02de894fa3f116719a2968f8fb23
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B8F4 11768 bytes