Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83d9105d5b6434c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.8 KB Created: 2020-07-23 12:40:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: 5a369c244d3365dfb3c1979321f4f3e1 SHA-1: 9890ebb6f6518da957bf449f1725bccc8d41c453 SHA-256: 83d9105d5b6434c49a069268a34754b52ddfb6676b19f5a1ba738dc9b00170b4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to SEO-optimized PDF files hosted on Shopify, which is indicative of a link farm or phishing lure. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely used to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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/wb?keyword=hp%20compaq%208200%20elite%20cmt%20pc%20manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.rhondastruminger.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071076/1562942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jacksonwritereditor.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379828/73d501b4a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bballguru.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740628/birikozovu_bobutusabete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rbigroup.biz/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739713/felovoforinalave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rearrangewithstyle.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775123/fikizujivonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9623/5415/files/wuvepidofefupuvapumedakot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/61047377128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5725/9420/files/73363739762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2226/2178/files/4363505762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7192/1571/files/22261641962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9024/5787/files/94759320618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3070/8375/files/29188936712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0528/8349/files/95701157701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5824/9376/files/85784000820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7526/3909/files/88814731303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5221/9030/files/87525304106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2240/9125/files/bujebovejixoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4610/9341/files/mixenumog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6135/4404/files/73591686078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3380/5471/files/50945547989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000082d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82D4 5244 bytes
SHA-256: 2b61cbd1d6bdb13b5ef10545691b8f6dcfc94b00732e82b31e4019851d414f22
font_01_sfnt_off0000948f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x948F 14492 bytes
SHA-256: 65122769d004928ccb31ab452fb4e1f0a7c46f5c516a9d1c6b5a2ee40c4534c6