Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b74472b517c94bd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.0 KB Created: 2020-08-23 13:42:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1b56a11bc80be7f34517bba2660f1961 SHA-1: 51ace38e9a0f1bad5a75ab30a65cc8168c8de0a5 SHA-256: b74472b517c94bd5ba9c6afd2f43c921f422813efe61d0435745a1b563110b47
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=blackmail+2005+video+songs'. It also contains a PDF link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and several benign-looking Shopify URLs, suggesting a lure to a malicious site.

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=blackmail+2005+video+songs
    • http://files.goataddictionfarms.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857304/bozugebeje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/66048758492.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/5489/0913/files/furling_genoa_sheet_length.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8131/1132/files/99234732568.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/0535/4657/files/advertising_id_android_example.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6939/9452/files/my_verizon_bill.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7395/4204/files/hammurabi_code.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2241/2958/files/awas_yojana_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1926/3397/files/40694798132.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6079/6318/files/agile_software_development_principles_patterns_and_practices_in_c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6241/9863/files/work_life_balance_policies.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1994/3579/files/51728094942.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4166/0826/files/counter_terror_attack_hack_mod_apk.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_off00004334.bin
a1b1eea1251c511901c741238fc46f5db4a6e4804632816821470837564b0469
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4334 5736 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000056b4.bin
4b9c5298dfab0df7874792072d898aa55947ea5c821c109604b19d71c8bd6a0c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x56B4 9588 bytes