Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8da5f68a92d02632…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-08-28 17:54:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 21b929996d8ad6ae06d8e0901d977c46 SHA-1: ca3bc4a4f0271970d5df9efc790718fb74b7a499 SHA-256: 8da5f68a92d0263207ac18f56549e6a54dcf94889f85e39e1b846e26d5d174eb
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=cachorros+en+venta+tijuana'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm behavior, embedding numerous external PDF links, many of which are hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing the lure. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting the user to malicious infrastructure via a seemingly innocuous link.

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.cc/pify?keyword=cachorros+en+venta+tijuana
    • http://gapun.hopehf.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379789/4007531.pdf
    • http://files.thinkaboutlibraries.ca/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302802/1887733637.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1267/5990/files/zelijo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6876/7912/files/92405065860.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6113/3990/files/skyrim_sigil_stone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3443/4969/files/junos_pulse_secure_vpn_client.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1674/8188/files/5545033762.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3486/9909/files/ielts_speaking_introduction_questions_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/7734/5956/files/android_games_on_mac.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6687/4269/files/59290982536.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6938/2557/files/72225396240.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2405/1358/files/lanebenodovetujim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7082/5382/files/catalogo_de_cores_suvinil.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006bf6.bin
005096d2f698164ce197e27a142ff9c2bfdf71024195007f08b8432f5c7d40c3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BF6 4896 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c9a.bin
60face6663523fdb5bbc00dda0d8e79fb49dfaf00b24b6a164cdd2befced67c1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C9A 11480 bytes