Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d79dd66bcfafbe4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-09 16:46:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 207eccc91daaa9c0740831d5644e1f8b SHA-1: ceb4b08b1c425449ba0a639d2a5f23b8f10083c7 SHA-256: d79dd66bcfafbe4b8027aded839b534df64f4609c52ef6d32d9a2b135b82c060
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=cdna+library+construction+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The PDF also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=cdna+library+construction+pdf
    • http://files.jessehazel.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130774979/jomeporubixom-jolawelapixut-kuzuvimu.pdf
    • http://files.seizemymoments.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969624/jukimoloradopojegaz.pdf
    • http://files.srilankahostels.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164317/95e1846.pdf
    • http://files.jessehazel.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130774979/jomeporubixom-jolawelapixu
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4874/6651/files/modern_definition_of_accounting.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7165/8392/files/jisotin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4245/5195/files/wonderlic_personnel_test.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5671/6183/files/78948734616.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1161/2572/files/calculus_chain_rule_problems_and_solutions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3430/3912/files/976239830.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3229/0215/files/moxuwexuwisa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8567/6192/files/aleister_crowley_moonchild.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0453/3823/0939/files/free_math_worksheets_for_3rd_grade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5608/6696/files/telaborilulorikigok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1287/1576/files/41755378398.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_off00006c8d.bin
158be79155a995375d7ca08d1ee0e9f15c8eca3baa2bf83e2bf3cd8f4345b404
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C8D 5296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007e9f.bin
826a4e0ba90d6df50a531506054a9002a474abe58b22560a93bcc5fc89b715dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E9F 12496 bytes