Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c521db5f15da791a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.8 KB Created: 2020-08-05 09:54:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f8d6d8a89d67d2f3bee0162031d1e7c8 SHA-1: 4f3e80dd69321212c61079b5f7fe1c9d192b051c SHA-256: c521db5f15da791af9aaacc353b5a246b507cc6c9e87aa204f0bd25f84ba5ea8
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com, likely for SEO poisoning. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is disguised as a book download. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated.

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=the+adventures+of+tom+sawyer+by+mark+twain+pdf+download
    • http://files.stitchedwithcare.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383624/dowumi-wefudazebukop-wivavin-tajewowe.pdf
    • http://files.ignitecities.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775195/kerojuvo-fitagojesez-jasog.pdf
    • http://files.janelletherien.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741176/rebozokesij_makemoripapu.pdf
    • http://files.bagsofelegance.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398504/kenixer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2451/5229/files/kuvosu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4222/6854/files/xodajosifefesapi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0294/3909/files/vubapiguzamivevu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3593/5388/files/bupojademuxifowij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1371/6643/files/dulimugigo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/65107231385.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7573/1607/files/39528344257.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1619/1138/files/94088623609.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2077/8653/files/kadanafanirirekerikipol.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_off000053c1.bin
f41fb13b5eaba85ccd070e7175000b2ba97d19fd280b9242c230004b60b019e7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53C1 5688 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006705.bin
8b686155733adf6cd31fd2fcbc376bcdb61c134f03529c79d3fb734de07a0143
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6705 10348 bytes