Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aac29548c5f10194…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.1 KB Created: 2020-08-12 08:55:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f659267841b988e4e688f2eecbd6e0c7 SHA-1: 6e447a85e5ddd906e0f53f4a77a3ea585942ecf5 SHA-256: aac29548c5f101941f7be08d6d1d860af0b1aa7d13bcc4a2b8b9484312f1d76b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=breaking+free+book+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm pattern, suggesting an attempt to distribute or obscure malicious links. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, reinforcing the lure.

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=breaking+free+book+pdf
    • http://files.sethcarper.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695782/3648724.pdf
    • http://files.orchidbakery.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775653/15a0753f53737ae.pdf
    • http://files.bassassassin.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070362/kogesogixafufo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3019/7925/files/because_you_loved_me_piano_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3446/8774/files/romufapuwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6704/0163/files/angioneurotic_edema.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4895/0170/files/sususopatuwuvopunewajibez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5815/1072/files/ciencia_moderna_definicion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4081/5774/files/pituberizalebubujavidiro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0979/4463/files/vizilizuvugat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1316/8542/files/96173032727.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2567/7982/files/72073868947.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9508/9559/files/22900477254.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/2097/2195/files/62750522515.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7463/4403/files/38770576394.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7674/7413/files/cancer_de_piel_tipos.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_off0000a299.bin
e76673095cba12f3c3676850b1ffaa0e6a50a0cf805edbca06120cd0a5020007
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA299 5252 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b483.bin
ac1e2cd68a1335c0480f8559bd75e0fad186ad213169063b99a96fe18fe90a88
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB483 10120 bytes