Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a84c968f10e7f547…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.0 KB Created: 2020-08-09 07:12:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d279fba32a598deb7c5726c92830edee SHA-1: 7ec19ba8879336da47c10e1a9eaa9864f4a4a2f5 SHA-256: a84c968f10e7f547116f27e493ce226d1e362229263e7c10450708d48b50c536
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing a malicious redirector link and a large number of external PDF links, indicative of an SEO link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains the URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=estrategias+de+lectura+pdf, which is a known malicious redirector, and numerous other links hosted on cdn.shopify.com and other domains, suggesting a campaign to drive traffic to potentially malicious or spam content.

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=estrategias+de+lectura+pdf
    • http://renejeb.lpethelphoto.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070420/89c41a8bd.pdf
    • http://files.ryanhayford.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776852/9434700.pdf
    • http://files.ridertransformation.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775905/4506679.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2171/4079/files/ritezenowuwibawunizuwarol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5322/6913/files/94702384765.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7230/5817/files/wifeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/parisibudipaxetiwori.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9906/2421/files/77376620119.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2230/9786/files/52484554471.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1184/1958/files/79000854400.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4942/6839/files/gexabefop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1567/3752/files/how_to_underline_in_discord.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0472/9243/files/48237572981.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8897/5774/files/46668008821.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7058/7029/files/29129847611.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2658/6520/files/coldplay_fix_you_meaning.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_off00007997.bin
4cc07ecca1a7c44270b56cab24d0f18fe4a19aca105f3964adb8f99db1628653
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7997 5280 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008b9d.bin
60cf1218d72f9eaf02cb2eef05718be7b84c4139d6085d33cbedb543a3188cce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B9D 10864 bytes