Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7dbea5df8ffaca1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.3 KB Created: 2020-07-28 16:16:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2c3fc57a20f2ae914fcc983d51a01bff SHA-1: a220dabf67bb1abfa9978684833c6ca18786371a SHA-256: 7dbea5df8ffaca1cd21b799cba0da3e878a2e9f86f9b3dfa52a5e39dc557d34a
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=actor+karthik+hit+songs+free`. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, with numerous external links, many hosted on `cdn.shopify.com`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'actor karthik hit songs', likely a lure to entice clicks on the malicious link.

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=actor+karthik+hit+songs+free
    • http://files.brigalowlimousins.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070165/2660577.pdf
    • http://files.cheekycanvas.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070520/nafir_gebam_fifabavagul.pdf
    • http://files.australianupholstery.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776819/5133090.pdf
    • http://files.jamisoncarter.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437832/3c6fdb35acfa8a.pdf
    • http://files.brigalowlimousins.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070165/26
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9972/4702/files/wideluparibewoxibeletaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6737/4758/files/wobimixabasabo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5813/3152/files/kejafinevezireropijo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8012/2532/files/bejonamukonejitopup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2163/0631/files/pipivezategigebofu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8714/2818/files/xubixowoxomawasegige.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8976/5279/files/lunidonapul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6318/9412/files/mibirakajamopubuvod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5071/1705/files/linisuwariwu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/571475918.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5363/5989/files/51321882104.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_off00009e42.bin
a9bbe5b5c7b2e3ac8ebd6e08f53c2bc65e9edd575aab23bdf2e4ca8d54b677f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E42 4952 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000af08.bin
f1787c1398c45c2b92f8bdb9cfcd1b86998ef68ff9cef39143dab6ee434562ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF08 15932 bytes