Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a44dfb79468a5547…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-09-01 02:25:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0cd882ae390c3b5c26fe1999fafd838d SHA-1: 069cc90aafc6bbb779f5720bb5043a182e6ea2df SHA-256: a44dfb79468a5547f4af37cfaca2b71e41e25c4d9f6d85d7f0fd4c4867da8b4f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, identified as a link farm. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=ms+sql+server+2014+express+sp2', points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination and potentially engage in SEO poisoning or drive-by downloads. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=ms+sql+server+2014+express+sp2
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f80014_53419c7e19e14e4da7dde465b253b978.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/96768c_188358738e494dac80474788ee9ef241.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/122077_1a234cff3f664dfeabe05766af2abacf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_127b7f64e5fe454c97d8858f93b75350.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/50de67_f3eb8e6130284ef7bbe355ed84df00a3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1102/9667/files/xenelusupala.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0081/6028/files/precalculus_with_limits.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9318/1081/files/4358318687.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b85eb0_2c92ca3d674045d5b1c01442301a3ba3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9374a7_7e4591a2a3da4675b30853e9c58fefe2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/409ca8_2f7b2e1563e04ef7916abb3096c1d639.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4c76bf_63627c4a52ee49258987b6dc9455b398.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3257/5132/files/26748451793.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4455/0294/files/49257832195.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005a91.bin
98968e89bd1750ab3d086679c2923dbcbcb10295e1728c9fb80875989a5ac9c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A91 4720 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006abd.bin
804ea48c43a83310eb672fb20ac096eee9c63cbc634364dc3c3e16edff336bbd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ABD 13072 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000093c2.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93C2 4324 bytes