Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a65eaf4adf50e16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.1 KB Created: 2020-08-18 22:27:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 19a89332fe140be80e727cf95e9cefcf SHA-1: 4def0a49b78ea365a8817c31f6580209b679a127 SHA-256: 8a65eaf4adf50e16069500891117ed29de25bc00601b7236db9493b4910e8bdc
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=cargill+inc+annual+report'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Cargill inc annual report', suggesting a lure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on shopify.com, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve search engine ranking for malicious content or to obscure the true destination.

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=cargill+inc+annual+report
    • http://bimofar.webaggedit.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739922/kubixubun.pdf
    • http://gemezunik.so365compliance.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384771/9e19bc7.pdf
    • http://files.creative-sportsconcepts.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453068/6296509.pdf
    • http://files.creative-sportsconcepts.com/uploads/1/3/1/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0067/3950/files/ios_10._2_beta_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5802/0000/files/calculus_for_beginners.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3690/8439/files/arduino_programming_examples.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5561/9994/files/built_to_last_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0490/3073/files/levejefiforamamadezux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5109/0077/files/avant_garde_theatre.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5706/1788/files/articulation_and_phonology_in_speech_sound_disorders_6th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6562/0118/files/zirenefuve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5460/4198/files/citation_index.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6853/8521/files/19902093049.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_off0000c137.bin
0e7836a9d412f32fcd50d5be7933f5fde85fd8b9906be6a437bad202efb443fc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC137 4828 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1ae.bin
e18ba6d80d35806c033957fefdbb51ea3e6eb56b0f0b6ec107c6e42c400f4b31
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1AE 11244 bytes