Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a97c36c26661748e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-08-09 04:06:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f9f7439ae3e1c829860dbe2a885b5de2 SHA-1: cf820bdd613b17d94dae3c173d77b11331c38e57 SHA-256: a97c36c26661748e1b61e5f8fb7412f5e3479b97034e076a43c2df9adc9c09c0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=social+media+addiction+scale+pdf`. This suggests the document is designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports this assessment, and the presence of a link farm further indicates malicious intent.

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=social+media+addiction+scale+pdf
    • http://files.therootsellers.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483830/lolifetuzu.pdf
    • http://lamilo.masterroofingaus.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683014/7365739.pdf
    • http://files.linguaexpertise.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682295/dowokamobibiva.pdf
    • http://ziwovitin.malteseartist.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411896/nabifopobipefa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7896/7703/files/riwewibejijovokales.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0029/8648/files/sedasojomoto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8491/3563/files/12778228647.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1407/9143/files/jedejimezifelubore.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4693/5451/files/felenatobubagakar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3428/0090/files/vojolalozitexanifovifik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7113/6154/files/93984648809.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9807/1450/files/15849844161.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0331/3308/files/92571463734.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6908/6623/files/18738475640.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6295/1062/files/3d_max_tutorial_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5738/8440/files/html5_empty_template.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_off00007b5e.bin
a2c0d8af21f8639a74f8788bc1cba1f729417096177b70796f2100d9fbfe8e63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B5E 5308 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008d5e.bin
a42c1a53fe7f21c908be8c5c7c190675248d93b09652d1fd2ccd934096a13217
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D5E 10076 bytes