Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 914621f98741b3b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-25 02:39:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c57477b4e73637352296632dc17ab020 SHA-1: 729ea2c3c4190679f934a25fb8d3f1f39742efe6 SHA-256: 914621f98741b3b5198ebbefcc324168ab7081c8e21542b4bf18a2e4056589eb
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with the primary redirector pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=adamstown+public+school+uniform+shop'. The majority of other links lead to a link farm hosted on Shopify, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute content or manipulate search results. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a redirector link confirms a malicious intent to direct users to potentially harmful 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=adamstown+public+school+uniform+shop
    • http://files.paintballparadisebend.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776164/xanov-lumumotelen-nifakosez-gotufepopuja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6204/2529/files/sobakiditabokafadazu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0785/1171/files/88505357072.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/0623/3496/files/zuzarevutan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1123/3176/files/47147638133.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4699/3063/files/49902102728.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2605/4306/files/rugupabusikiwejige.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7921/8840/files/64556962855.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0339/3694/files/tornillos_y_tuercas_medidas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6853/8521/files/49665242831.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0629/4176/files/53607161300.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2571/0756/files/dead_frontier_wiki.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_off00006068.bin
b4c5bd29f6888f52275631ad22c51bc9622ea9e09d6a93670261c4fc71717f65
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6068 5616 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007361.bin
cc5fb7316bdc10982769b6548b52bd4bb0e737f3bdb5fc9014ab42e42d8cdd64
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7361 10468 bytes