Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de907f538a73170d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-19 05:23:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ca62eace8906415d89d15239185f706b SHA-1: 1c380124c5a63a3e782b6b5e797d11f650574ef4 SHA-256: de907f538a73170de8d02356b36a2e92a75a6552991010f1c4b7d96f2cc1f2b5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with the critical heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK indicating that at least one link points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic further suggests a large collection of external links, many hosted on Shopify. The presence of the URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=jerry+thomas+bartenders+guide, which is flagged as a malicious redirector, strongly suggests an attempt to lure the user to a harmful destination. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

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=jerry+thomas+bartenders+guide
    • http://files.jhcfirestop.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775310/mubesizil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/dijupabexapuvasazanuripik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5131/0488/files/articles_exercises_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/8062/4802/files/64422917837.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6173/8662/files/appetites_bourdain.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4247/9000/files/pelopaxajapikositesetij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6094/4296/files/kivutekurugokodigemolit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7287/8747/files/sofipejosoripudogimomupe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5594/6645/files/mipezaselumenov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/2074/2819/files/33294927863.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8965/5960/files/vufebasunasowataxotesezi.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_off000065f2.bin
87e2e33abcbecf25d9a0589e1e2cba92542ecc44c5854bdc165cd7daeab9c7a2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65F2 5436 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000784c.bin
feccd021cfc7b0faae2c1e21e5cd5503c3f8e2b5dd9d369f14d8b21069d63416
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x784C 10568 bytes