Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90026360574782a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-09 20:26:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 35f6e757c0095949294a31a444cb7346 SHA-1: 5cce6a3cd70017117e8179824d536cab18dc7e42 SHA-256: 90026360574782a7216e5c5f2338ae994d5fc9b13f82a734251662e4ad2b422b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to a high ML score and the presence of a link farm containing numerous external PDF links. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=el+amontillado+pdf', points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The presence of multiple Shopify-hosted PDFs indicates an attempt to blend malicious links with seemingly benign 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=el+amontillado+pdf
    • http://files.emerge-studios.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871720/repatodotox.pdf
    • http://pujemak.shiningbirchmassage.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857334/1052859.pdf
    • http://files.sumerstatleraeed.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873737/wonudabubowiwejiro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0792/5654/files/62851902369.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8165/4687/files/negirifevirujadedediv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4365/1741/files/stardock_fences_3_crack.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8999/3635/files/titans_free_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6576/0151/files/gegomedad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1777/0904/files/25565467563.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2439/2087/files/zodijutefokatexowiwilotav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3128/8215/files/database_management_system_for_bsc_computer_science.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8868/2916/files/61760936313.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5170/3706/files/hp_10bii_financial_calculator_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9763/7535/files/dofevut.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_off0000663f.bin
d2e9c5ca29384eade44f2b61a89225524abff8b469eb54767d21f8d18ba6dab4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x663F 4872 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000076c7.bin
df1d6457d4254f3053d2d771fa73fcb47802ae39f0f08e3d0177aa1aa07e3284
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76C7 10308 bytes