Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c3324141c6e1ccc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.5 KB Created: 2020-08-04 19:09:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cde8314ad68d10864ec21a1bbcf491d8 SHA-1: 378fa0f6dd2e6187614764e9cfdabc59ceeebd5b SHA-256: 8c3324141c6e1ccc1627d7bffd0789e97db59debc8373de8f33dadc6cc027f3a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=biology+class+11+ncert+pdf+book'. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the redirector URL, indicating a lure to external malicious content.

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=biology+class+11+ncert+pdf+book
    • http://files.fidesdesigncards.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969048/3046239.pdf
    • http://files.quiltedpics.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776828/novesaj_geluz.pdf
    • http://files.ridingisgood.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873826/ketaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5592/2852/files/pikabusenelulupuwur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7125/8278/files/12870341815.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5366/1851/files/zununepebuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1152/1181/files/bacterial_resistance_to_antibiotics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2986/2312/files/1_99_herblore_guide_osrs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3863/8241/files/jaridipopekaketakusajax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6434/5255/files/41120767464.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4395/2539/files/xilovedosopigitagulu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1747/0101/files/tenasadunimasi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/36103472339.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_off00005bcc.bin
6f45f0a15c559c9a69598da9aade73e4975a6d591df8efd0c6f669decaf339db
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BCC 5728 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f6f.bin
6401ac495ebe34ec4e902322eabaa81856a9d4749b8d508e942f81f18605742e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F6F 9948 bytes