Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8110543a7d0974ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-08-20 11:10:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2155cff611cdae8f8cf180576cbaba5c SHA-1: 2d1bf2a2e8a4ac6a1341028d5fa3128f01c1d425 SHA-256: 8110543a7d0974edaf85a928b4d28f4e6f1f193dd1ac30e01ca523fd6dbaec1e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=justin+bieber+video+song+sorry+free'. Another critical heuristic identified a PDF link farm hosted on Shopify, suggesting a tactic to distribute malicious content or obscure the true destination. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector and link farm indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=justin+bieber+video+song+sorry+free
    • http://wunasulas.meganphibbons.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636612/sufoxiwonani.pdf
    • http://wivag.mrsgoldsteinsclass.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776779/vaxufowag_nulokijotas.pdf
    • http://files.4everinelectricdreams.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740564/97236ef5dcf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2623/4009/files/lilaliripojonasozovasu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5252/3929/files/polelolumof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7026/7291/files/newark_weather_radar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4324/9576/files/71589347074.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3928/4645/files/rigovutomo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9201/7305/files/59014598633.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5932/8662/files/25631941225.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/4516/2903/files/88132771312.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6351/7092/files/centrifugal_pump_handbook_free_download.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004fb9.bin
ba6725ad67a14d88467c9d75e8e73fe1d39da1bab58b451202c3c4f8be597508
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4FB9 5004 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000060d0.bin
4136933c529f4aabfb09e8dc271293c00273c4c3f067214bdb620e2507fa3f0e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60D0 9980 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008314.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8314 4324 bytes