Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b698e433b69c8ca8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.6 KB Created: 2020-07-31 21:14:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 21eab3b0b2f66e7e55d67715c17cf252 SHA-1: 08fbb65765812adc3f7f37be8ef5368d3d2bb736 SHA-256: b698e433b69c8ca800274fd4d27849db7ebf24e22855b177364983a014d16800
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=objective+c+protocol', which is also present in the heuristics. The file also exhibits a PDF link farm behavior, with numerous links pointing to external PDF files, many hosted on Shopify. This suggests an attempt to either distribute malware via these links or engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes.

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=objective+c+protocol
    • http://files.12monthbeauty.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874128/6301925.pdf
    • http://files.writespacejerusalem.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397930/sarosifasijufowubota.pdf
    • http://files.oneontapubliclibrary.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410606/rinepawabop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1761/6034/files/18317930858.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2775/9257/files/zudobujekuvofebemogetal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9930/6650/files/86760229412.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2154/1277/files/tozesotisopufi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0799/1208/files/fadezuxomavozodafatifelus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6118/2617/files/25584806101.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7188/9815/files/71510388024.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5299/8556/files/59149549347.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6142/7867/files/poliwobalijazegi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6422/2101/files/62423029682.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7468/0987/files/didini.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_off00007c23.bin
ba94e392f4e4016f3cb277338e72a48328da21092d873157dc6ee5a282ce8221
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C23 4840 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008cb3.bin
990d261cfce4d61e602dbab7423246e8930768d830a12049ae36f605754d41ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CB3 10908 bytes