Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90495f50c3cddbf8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.0 KB Created: 2020-08-17 15:39:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d3ac81afaa968d845426488973b79245 SHA-1: 9c797af48794aad05dca2460319327b4b12fe724 SHA-256: 90495f50c3cddbf8775baa4a201e9986be4dbcf632f5a37711d8b49cb8c9ccea
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The embedded URL, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=cardamom+bread+nutritional+information, is a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and numerous other links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=cardamom+bread+nutritional+information
    • http://files.ibpedm.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453127/diretema.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1430/5430/files/19142297993.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9072/2454/files/34789341006.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3577/0535/files/nuzoxowuboko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3942/4669/files/55485797052.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9236/9823/files/61514139285.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/3412/9062/files/buxixuguwonoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4166/8770/files/moruked.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8982/1847/files/poxelasivifetejapu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0670/5316/files/direct_and_bending_stress.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8844/5604/files/zigofazuwavopil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0184/6688/files/56454272167.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9102/4277/files/lolugorex.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_off00004f52.bin
004921bf1c2ebc1f3bd60fa7a5ae6c44be86cfef55019cb9c6dc2fec34e672b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F52 4920 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005ff8.bin
be973bd7afb74910f5e771fc9e9068cad64bf12aaeec1e73f6115592f6e6d956
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FF8 10380 bytes