Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9249840f1f643f6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-17 11:26:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f3217198a0d6fd3bbbf46f3d05813233 SHA-1: 9de06099b49e1d6499584a80168e71f76eaf556b SHA-256: 9249840f1f643f6d467c12c8d50dc5fc5871b940cf2695f469abf437da0a5b95
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=bitnami+redmine+installation+guide', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the PDF is designed to lure users into clicking on malicious links, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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=bitnami+redmine+installation+guide
    • http://files.digitopolis.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409309/zomuzasofofa_puliwi_talafuxaweda.pdf
    • http://files.furbabygrooming.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874090/jazogozi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1570/8573/files/pepukuxevoxipinibixeser.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6164/0352/files/5661651566.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9177/2063/files/skeena_river_fishing_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wudusojixidotivage.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7723/7917/files/51777615573.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7792/7072/files/best_autoexec_cs_go.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4801/8855/files/antonio_machado_poemas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6906/3836/files/free_vocabulary_worksheets_for_3rd_grade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0743/4142/files/ramujiwitaxukanezuwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4997/5961/files/vilamera.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7990/9028/files/3460358787.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3705/6411/files/ctet_2020_notification.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_off00006988.bin
901fcf86e6a7045994df43b976e75f34cac8e0ffffa6e7af136c80cfa4ab2fbd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6988 5192 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b0f.bin
1aaf65a305f78069b4cdcae76120d622f3d88895b582b85c2c4071ab6bf6997d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B0F 13656 bytes