Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca618ec73a347bf0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.5 KB Created: 2020-08-02 03:36:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 157a9734e961f2784bb455b7f5982384 SHA-1: 77ed0e469dd897232781e57cdfe050df957d9c5b SHA-256: ca618ec73a347bf044011a3288ca2ffd74aa82438e5643a235da1313ef807bc4
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with the primary redirector URL being https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=empty+bottles+yelawolf. The heuristic firings indicate this is a malicious redirector and part of a link farm, likely intended to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=empty+bottles+yelawolf
    • http://files.pwfaa.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398428/memukigobomupivog.pdf
    • http://files.strawberrymoon.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775506/d3fca.pdf
    • http://files.thatweddingninja.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695325/papinosineteki-niwug.pdf
    • http://files.amyplouff.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454345/693788.pdf
    • http://files.grandbendsoccer.ca/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871894/mirelukexuger.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4638/7362/files/14551836881.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8850/2174/files/47463384937.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6037/9286/files/bokipogurezagu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4836/8288/files/faxepamelepojutora.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2630/7480/files/gopuzakejafuve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/95610310087.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7909/0855/files/58641173048.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9967/5040/files/2015233578.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5503/9135/files/54991557925.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2023/0564/files/petidojebelixixinikulota.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_off00004d35.bin
fbc5b937b2d6d6091fa9a792bbf91593d7ba0a16f12ecb0467cb23c3f5a21c0a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D35 5240 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005f0f.bin
0823eafffb742584889e1133620204fd3bc7bbc2030aaa6a1289c45f3c8bfaed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F0F 10460 bytes