Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5e357e9944a45db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-07-31 07:38:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f48114c96b98acfcd60b00f3fdfab933 SHA-1: 1be24742e3334a97c337edeb4a4e0d1bd09d24d1 SHA-256: a5e357e9944a45db93a93d991b9033f25ac9b7a689db274c6cd1d6cd2a2e7ac9
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it directs users to malicious infrastructure via the URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=arunima+sinha+book+pdf. Additionally, PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicates a large number of embedded links, with the first being https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2280/3366/files/zobeginof.pdf, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=arunima+sinha+book+pdf
    • http://files.attractionmania.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857419/6afc07b.pdf
    • http://files.forestbrookstudios.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455463/nawimutuputonikedez.pdf
    • http://files.dunhamlit.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776406/7ac5199f.pdf
    • http://files.abortion-decriminalisation.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606392/4676423.pdf
    • http://files.spoonful-osaji.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775163/wuzag.pdf
    • http://files.abortion-decr
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2280/3366/files/zobeginof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0533/0083/files/zomadodokalomibegux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0637/7632/files/62020802228.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4102/1334/files/66382211217.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1269/9798/files/48071218088.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7929/4358/files/razizagexemadesil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5915/1009/files/16219475651.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5388/2273/files/27559615912.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8624/2209/files/55296869763.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9324/5590/files/bivosu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2626/7806/files/feligesedu.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_off0000740f.bin
2300c7c527dc44457449077e2cb15899dcbf46f2618f340adc62193903e90c63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x740F 5124 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008523.bin
e26ff15b8b35414f6367fbdf07f1ed03e81d9d10d5968232de9bdd0cb4a11f1c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8523 10636 bytes