Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e9898f35ae7fca6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-16 00:40:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d79d3a7f747fd81e06cfaef3f518b6f6 SHA-1: 5888ceea49c9cfdf4ec49c47ca8be57e7d6a6ee8 SHA-256: 7e9898f35ae7fca6df83cc5faedaa9bc10c7584d69b2dc3ba1298a181d97bf3c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, a common technique for SEO poisoning or link farms. One of these links, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=general+guidelines+tradu%25C3%25A7%25C3%25A3o, points to a known malicious redirector. While many other links point to benign Shopify-hosted PDFs, the presence of the malicious redirector indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=general+guidelines+tradu%25C3%25A7%25C3%25A3o
    • http://files.professorwillis.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969819/3536095.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/8137/2582/files/saber_yo_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3415/7991/files/22795745505.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5824/7320/files/pag_ibig_acquired_assets_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6369/7817/files/lagu_lily_alan_walker_wapka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6929/0149/files/87862391538.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gomejalubewetilukifij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4073/3341/files/guxexilatosi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6529/5526/files/cassava_production_in_thailand.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9094/3904/files/livodogelodada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4864/0418/files/32767711062.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_off00007295.bin
e396754b466a025e3a3ca5eb3340d9af85f02a3502abcdeee9b0c7a124cc338f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7295 5524 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000084d4.bin
7042a1cc714ebb95adb4f8ee7d35447f9dacbe0460e87a6ea6adf3b84ca552f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84D4 10020 bytes