Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9edb4313f97a00a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-07 02:11:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2c444ecaf44befbdf45170ed7f88d344 SHA-1: 0cc5e632352b32c4b33b15b9e60bb147a7aaba6b SHA-256: a9edb4313f97a00ae002b3a492ab8bd00d92ccf0acdf603bfc298250acc04995
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=marriage+contract+sample+philippines+pdf'. This URL is embedded within the document body, disguised as a marriage contract sample. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. 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.cc/pify?keyword=marriage+contract+sample+philippines+pdf
    • http://files.karenjohnsonmitchell.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163601/9272180.pdf
    • http://files.lasalledumoulinneuf.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454916/0ae5cbefcff1730.pdf
    • http://titafum.apdcentraloffice.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741334/sanaroxalox.pdf
    • http://files.arvellandcompany.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070169/zipepexolepux-wakeminuja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4244/6231/files/47722719461.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0505/0021/files/zevufanelazepujelexugukon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0765/3526/files/benedetto_cotrugli_biografia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3510/6203/files/7782712978.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6788/2134/files/diagnostico_social_ejemplo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8072/6168/files/59047080012.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1348/0354/files/3232310394.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7417/4632/files/completed_contract_method.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wifufokamavobopizevotug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1103/0690/files/ielts_academic_writing_exercises.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5817/3854/files/extract_vmdk_from_ova.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_off0000618c.bin
c2ef450501cbb1ebdd22f22d45861fc677795649db29c75705b074a9f1afdea6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x618C 5572 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007464.bin
8feea4a674cf56433997e19a16b004be0b55a9c124acdbf66d6f1d7a8a95ee55
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7464 10012 bytes