Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5c002050b89a8d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-08-21 00:56:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e8e685f759f0e0235b0fb3bbf6644d04 SHA-1: 40eab39cb098d9d5a957eeb8753712455dccecd0 SHA-256: c5c002050b89a8d4b58b12a877cc07f27565333c3f776479ace52473055a2c40
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=online+video+to+audio+converter+apk'. Additionally, a PDF link farm heuristic indicates the presence of numerous external links, with the first being 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5300/7526/files/dance_video_song_sharechat.pdf'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body contains garbled text but includes the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a potentially 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=online+video+to+audio+converter+apk
    • http://files.drlauraforsyth.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776206/9599250.pdf
    • http://files.lilachbar-ami.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303075/06abc032.pdf
    • http://files.tameriamartinezclay.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813546/zasurapof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5300/7526/files/dance_video_song_sharechat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4024/2840/files/59886357504.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6640/0663/files/96050250517.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8863/4263/files/guruxamaxokiwukilawix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0233/9232/files/9427277094.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5473/4241/files/jagowarazub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2732/4310/files/7203642540.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7892/4953/files/cracking_the_sat_math_2_subject_test.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3622/9278/files/mawotozukuwokuluderarun.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006d29.bin
3dd651514c14e6e05288109668636cf7d6bc5eada5038790232ea0a040e2a44c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D29 4920 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007df9.bin
89d8541dd77a093e4f7ac7909023e993a21a23b4a7d6e200611196f58fe07430
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DF9 10664 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a26a.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA26A 4324 bytes