Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0016b89542f989c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-07-30 09:02:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 31fa7a0ae0fc6f67a32439fedf8d00d0 SHA-1: b3d77a8ae1c890d4ec8436e5017d07191c41bcd4 SHA-256: a0016b89542f989c560aa4ce1f0a9b6eb4321aa828b6aa36ff561a0f5bbeaec1
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 a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com, and one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.com). The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, but the presence of numerous links and the critical redirector heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

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=simultaneous+equations+substitution+method+pdf
    • http://files.kandvdesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438776/7b0e4.pdf
    • http://files.csbcstatesville.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776206/tukoturituva_muvupewan_bomex_tevelebevutagak.pdf
    • http://files.carterswhs.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814169/c6babfc785ec8.pdf
    • http://files.jmbpaperhangers.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380126/9584488.pdf
    • http://files.dianakemp.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453588/lawepuwomuzotoxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4424/9504/files/zipinowufexivilej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4603/3818/files/77869433798.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9865/1288/files/sixelowumupuforusofo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2134/3647/files/ludodalurazawomo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9977/5381/files/vafenesulopuwonorebeku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4649/3605/files/sukujolaxaxurok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4635/4592/files/gavojof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2884/8538/files/21854306253.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6379/5096/files/30103974916.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8693/7253/files/40247506924.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0008/6175/files/8023611289.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_off00007436.bin
20267a4d87c1c8b3fb4285ba6ea5a11bcce5c8b5af76730eaad7671b936af038
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7436 5436 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000866f.bin
d325957a69f3953db587022266ff5fba5253a95383651b4250fb0e8a7658d83f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x866F 9948 bytes