Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93ecdd493f00cd7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-08-03 02:42:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 16a1827dfb01cc1d09fa01fad6cabdeb SHA-1: 2a2b0d13cf8e2348c2b118263d879fc6dcaa68de SHA-256: 93ecdd493f00cd7d0f79852786e2d383fb0a1fd2302adf9ea043e61bc5e133ca
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF contains a link to a redirector URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=pineapple+express+online+free, which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Pineapple express online free', suggesting a lure for free content. The presence of numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting PDF files, indicates a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=pineapple+express+online+free
    • http://files.windstargalactichealing.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606118/9860271.pdf
    • http://files.haleykatharine.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407424/surawojamo_nukobuwumova_botimutin_jadipu.pdf
    • http://files.claycountyhistoricalsocietyin.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131405976/zasulidesip_dexaja_rukikux_tapepaduzopa.pdf
    • http://files.derekrecks.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437018/puxusef-tigetalubej-retogidazoda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8365/3527/files/97490442856.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7323/9195/files/38500473995.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3603/3695/files/turn_off_fast_boot_windows_10.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5589/6983/files/91428856532.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6135/4389/files/jomezemoxakovovu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3374/7878/files/90490400537.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/17418425376.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1547/0245/files/37907598617.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1582/2747/files/bubutalusebaxabuzenibetup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7943/3382/files/toves.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2408/9242/files/20570471718.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8305/5782/files/74591189828.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_off00006e85.bin
4cbad2076af7b33e273d62a6845752bcdf55e1a0425fd84cf6d1f70932fb253b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E85 4964 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f7a.bin
aa3d11b66324480714c089c4609ab5aa34aa4c83c106b5536b7e056528004c99
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F7A 10824 bytes