Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1ee61035bdac3ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-07 19:03:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d58cc863807032c4d419e4227ddf544d SHA-1: 5832f543da0ca08c15d67a82375a7f3a66642a1f SHA-256: e1ee61035bdac3ec5b540af7ed5787a78d082d0b12981695372bf3a4e5e1a590
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 one identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=types+of+antonyms+pdf', suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of numerous Shopify links, while many are benign, contributes to a link farm strategy.

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=types+of+antonyms+pdf
    • http://files.legalprose.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380107/5460065.pdf
    • http://files.trunorthinspections.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738823/befegonibogela.pdf
    • http://files.parisaforoutan.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969330/gudobolufosenun-sewazasutevekes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6338/6016/files/49565155609.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9078/9027/files/83290208559.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/norojakibi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7956/4448/files/wavunun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9803/8679/files/9882402348.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/punafaga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2990/2998/files/25766109642.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/34993807018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3011/7526/files/dataxibomiret.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1142/1854/files/oxford_english_to_spanish_dictionary.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6255/0940/files/sierra_reloading_data.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3404/9703/files/livro_almagesto.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_off000067a6.bin
7d8c3f354fe8f885214d5801870d2c9669e4bed735ce6eac94664f2a62f5c2ea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67A6 5108 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007909.bin
a73a8b89e1e7840e0e64e64048f23135df48871cb3b72066a7609ae9a2db4b24
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7909 10112 bytes