Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f5a4a7dcb8be1fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-08-25 05:46:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eaaadd5162aeb6f9eb8b4c27e7b37c90 SHA-1: 0eac7afb94a279fa4b9ee2e3270285a1b431f31e SHA-256: 8f5a4a7dcb8be1fb5321ee9f17fa006d2dbd3c4fd0b2b4acfab68dfc464a7896
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=best+hd+movies++site+name'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to trick users into visiting a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware distribution, under the guise of providing movie links. The presence of a large number of external PDF links also suggests a link farm SEO tactic to improve search engine ranking for 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.cc/pify?keyword=best+hd+movies++site+name
    • http://files.rmgilmore.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740138/bee8ca4.pdf
    • http://files.montrealbicycleclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775197/rasef-misobatanol-xilevif.pdf
    • http://files.merionvillage.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381544/dd350bc672d6f9e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6662/2101/files/ropirogosez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3397/7255/files/88266567806.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5732/3933/files/terovap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0714/8185/files/kerutosupa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1227/5870/files/54927869565.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2906/7938/files/34240872650.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2132/6742/files/82314332482.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8557/5832/files/dreamweaver_cs6_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9966/7099/files/78668503008.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4800/8866/files/69159128282.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3863/0300/files/56945728861.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_off000065e7.bin
f506e8f5157f02c969844f324d9c1b460053a798bfb3759d4dd63f3a336e820a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65E7 5048 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000076f7.bin
d424c18148a0014ba74ff3c33eca85b083fcf50586c536865844ff0a4bb533d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76F7 9836 bytes