Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af1b90e857cc9e22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-18 17:24:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1e99e4588315fb7d4e83a05887a04500 SHA-1: e0fea1fdc32b476d7564925fdb8d930cf3d3c812 SHA-256: af1b90e857cc9e2273f3183475edf44e625bb92794bc89d6063a308347c51311
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, which is indicative of a link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=html+template+engine+java'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body contains garbled text but also includes the same URL, suggesting it's a 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.com/pify?keyword=html+template+engine+java
    • http://wibajas.pamelaabrown.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874359/kapaxo.pdf
    • http://sawaxa.epicfuncenter.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453870/c07107c8799d430.pdf
    • http://files.wildlife-safari-consultants.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969695/6707005.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3384/6175/files/cancun_travel_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9280/1704/files/xegaxawafupewax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2020/5726/files/taruxel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7311/7087/files/mudaka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2897/1681/files/83530393951.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3811/3955/files/anime_quiz_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5609/4614/files/41439198316.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7976/1061/files/busuu_premium_apk_latest.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vepotarinaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7643/5612/files/84864162090.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3977/6159/files/dofozasini.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_off00005f7d.bin
7f91966e0828f1266d73f1d843b569683811db741ce7486491aaab852f35ff10
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F7D 4960 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007054.bin
dab5224d0e28965a758617230ac71741d1f3d27953de43d63478672b9c661bc9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7054 11308 bytes