Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8604f68c7b14515b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-08-25 12:31:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ae470f9da36359f2d39b370783ddb7ae SHA-1: 3cfd94e30289eabcbe8899d1dea81e49f6e96cd6 SHA-256: 8604f68c7b14515bdf75daeb5c47ded2f690bf12c24657146085a714b4d35fd8
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=invent+synonym+formal'. Another critical heuristic, PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, indicates a mass of external PDF links, with 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3407/4523/files/47992788829.pdf' being the first identified. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of these link farms and redirectors suggests a malicious intent, likely for SEO manipulation or to funnel users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=invent+synonym+formal
    • http://vumiweka.liveoakchildcarecenter.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302936/507538.pdf
    • http://files.annepauley.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453536/34cdfebc96970.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3407/4523/files/47992788829.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1185/0918/files/11605158332.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0333/0208/files/arjun_reddy_breakup_song_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6446/7357/files/nukofapuzedizafojugido.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6057/5894/files/92049250886.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4979/3189/files/58248120808.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0786/8060/files/kerberos_network_authentication_protocol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1339/7924/files/6717227629.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6785/0390/files/materialize_css_layout_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2309/6216/files/quran_para_30_with_urdu_translation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3273/0008/files/90213072565.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4718/1718/files/66943376883.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7899/9446/files/31752594886.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_off000063e3.bin
16d8876d8ada67c315bc749e1bbb57182207c52883030a34d094a9287cd81dc8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63E3 5012 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074e2.bin
676655bddce85e8bf786727ffa71f10700d6fd42878e9e61235d4a7d32b6a91b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74E2 10884 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000099bc.bin
4c0a3f0893f5e69c6acf0c6b7f036872587aec6188c41bdd40a009ab43c82216
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99BC 16060 bytes