Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8518ee80707d7099…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-08-27 16:23:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eac9749c321255de3259d9ea38ee82b5 SHA-1: 8ebf04092f0f4a6f81c927909098ca83d404baab SHA-256: 8518ee80707d709991f121af83ba913f618c25d438de18a7bad4df42f718d884
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure related to 'Freddie Gibbs', likely intended to entice clicks. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or a method to distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier 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=freddie+gibbs+freddie+zip
    • http://files.designsgee.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381518/pakin.pdf
    • http://files.devonphotographytraining.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814258/6621a5.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4925/4041/files/bavigevulor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9183/6566/files/dororejavalotonakodulel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9304/1059/files/40494115439.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7677/9174/files/android_os_4._0_4_for_tablet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5978/1538/files/12408910278.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1345/6550/files/11271394256.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/bararilisubolubudikolumo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2986/2312/files/45590984816.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/27360052690.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3133/6859/files/medical_report_online_status.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/5444/4193/files/39288426018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7063/5676/files/whoqol_breve_italiano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4015/2475/files/lomuwiza.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005c25.bin
ba499b5df05aee7fc41cce9a9b78c4764a66a249c3adf6fcfe0de85c225a4497
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C25 5112 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006da5.bin
45a04d3d53b34ce96fae9c1067062ffb9e7501c4a584f737ae64fbabb10d88d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DA5 11180 bytes