Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da207abd6ba49d32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.5 KB Created: 2020-07-29 12:45:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 22d9568db962efdf59f1774c4753f3c9 SHA-1: 7287f6d5380d76879ae44d06f32e8e31d0c624d0 SHA-256: da207abd6ba49d3280ef1c15b926d1121154cb40a9d86cbe4c91f3e5f514b228
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting PDF files, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic indicates a malicious redirector link, specifically 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=benjamin+graham+books+pdf', which is designed to lure users into downloading content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Benjamin graham books pdf' and the wkhtmltopdf tool, reinforcing the lure.

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=benjamin+graham+books+pdf
    • http://files.frio4jrivercamp.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695492/kikafuvowisa.pdf
    • http://files.faithlosgatos.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411857/3dea4.pdf
    • http://files.newmarkethanaiohana.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775786/jeronabexenowo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.co
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4620/7650/files/zebabama.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2840/4632/files/zivitinusilumuvanemej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5625/1555/files/rokezuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3708/2271/files/33024546219.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7932/7137/files/61209280919.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8484/1124/files/14233582907.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3120/7837/files/bumixaniredakigas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3184/5271/files/ximakopixowara.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0342/9535/files/gudizukidegelorepev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4647/8759/files/98568770305.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5350/5946/files/53192353445.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4579/6512/files/37734997051.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_off00008638.bin
dd07e712af8943c86c83631be26351888de23b2e9f5e3ad768ff6e8c66407361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8638 5460 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000988d.bin
a49991419ebca7711239258bad56e58cbf32e87e9cca2d656f999e920ade9a4d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x988D 10832 bytes