Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0bce053c6decbfb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-07-26 13:53:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e5af4122eadfe8af6048956ac812d4cc SHA-1: cbb65667df4e0d6f7989b875844bf6ed7fc2ba94 SHA-256: b0bce053c6decbfb1afea1b05c8a086fa63e7d44e7dedc903fb3c02f149bae0a
154 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 malicious redirector links and a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=nice+guidelines+depression+2019', is identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains garbled text and metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, which is often used to create documents for SEO spam or phishing lures.

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=nice+guidelines+depression+2019
    • http://files.subterfuge-au.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453636/zosoremusukakom.pdf
    • http://files.circle-m-consulting-llc.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740293/8bbacf1.pdf
    • http://files.gss-research.info/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483184/tijanozukila.pdf
    • http://files.circle-m-consulting-llc.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740293/8b
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0252/5856/files/73229992433.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/noviwuvado.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8484/1124/files/ginodutizorogapefikafokal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6690/1148/files/bilelusudirofabanuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xokuwunojuvilil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3714/7804/files/31161132359.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3113/3340/files/18088723817.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1960/7962/files/12722204982.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3577/0535/files/nusususidiwisixagutorawo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4923/8178/files/40874033896.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0485/4426/files/43986648409.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7441/1926/files/83009994330.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_off0000733f.bin
451e110c48fa1fb506623128a05f07288eccff8447a842b46854f441450efafb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x733F 5284 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008539.bin
de338a9a6134dd20ed13a090a26068c83938c653cb37cf94a20cfb5c27a626be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8539 10500 bytes