Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc4abfe7fb09b2e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-21 06:08:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 18ecdc41cb6cc071610f750f26883e31 SHA-1: 63179d963c8bace45fd9626156914d7b2f208c2b SHA-256: bc4abfe7fb09b2e18dcf98e1e409b8f78bbf746bb25d2875f4beeb316fd24479
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to what appears to be a link farm hosted on Shopify, designed to obscure the primary malicious redirector. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK specifically flags the URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=wise+and+otherwise+book+free as malicious. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the malicious URL and several other PDF links, suggesting a social engineering attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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=wise+and+otherwise+book+free
    • http://files.sachagrosselart.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969209/belizifimekedaxuwuzu.pdf
    • http://fipime.preciouspawsboutique.shop/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775350/kebovesopag.pdf
    • http://files.angelaheckmueller.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438840/b92f57d088606.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0254/3778/files/exercices_francais_adjectifs_possessifs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5266/1926/files/risipumadopizixetaji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0718/0954/files/halloween_colouring_templates_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1293/8152/files/acog_guidelines_for_abnormal_uterine_bleeding.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2032/8853/files/antenna_and_wave_propagation_kraus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8015/5290/files/30055609523.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1687/0298/files/waiting_for_the_barbarians_coetzee.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1853/4557/files/11183643803.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4229/2390/files/jewod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nalekubaserigudopen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1895/2610/files/saroridatufumogije.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_off0000648d.bin
5e80e54275b6198685e3add1809570484e1a67ef50a017fd6150e969c3ca97d4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x648D 5272 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000768c.bin
aaee7c8acedd9d6b1f5356e899aeebc5399cc2d6d097427fdd4b7b25897cbfd9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x768C 10072 bytes