Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97e091159ee82aa8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-08-17 07:18:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f10bce9bfcdfd8a8dea52b58e35ad6c3 SHA-1: 79c81bfca77b574c3000bb9de2ed33e9ad4b1cc9 SHA-256: 97e091159ee82aa8bbc200db9cea06122a6607233e4d3ad2d0d8afe6d89a5b2f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=checkbox+xml+android+example', which is likely used to redirect users to a malicious site. The presence of numerous other links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggests a link farm or a method to distribute the malicious payload through various means.

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=checkbox+xml+android+example
    • http://wiboramo.shirlsimpleblessing.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738732/zejafotun_xipexow_mijek.pdf
    • http://diwek.laplatanursinghome.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681490/7798144.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3058/5250/files/35055242210.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8361/9738/files/68620252338.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/0472/6168/files/acknowledgement_of_receipt_form_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/12909571685.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9805/3539/files/rokuxapupisive.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9201/7305/files/abandon_all_hope_rpg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8865/0142/files/vudetixijapejot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6334/4280/files/microsoft_platform_toolset_v110.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3092/1895/files/gedurojusemizukumedaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6956/2266/files/19361666628.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1427/3693/files/pakistan_cricket_schedule_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3080/5671/files/81376025427.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_off000068cd.bin
3b09d9b91e0ebb2a5cf52ee482af7689d0a71d5631fe94f74c0b7c1f2378c221
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68CD 5312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007aa5.bin
2353cf91d6fefe657337fdbf5e642ebd223c497713ec3b20e05f8bc90976ea9f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AA5 15576 bytes