Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2fb67c4f26b897e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-05 13:30:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 38eacbe8017dcd551d7fe1449cb4d459 SHA-1: 80bb157f321ad0db766e7df99f3af7250859c634 SHA-256: e2fb67c4f26b897ec3528570314201957b428319ab8008c61b662e451ff3b6d8
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a deceptive title and a large number of embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=blood+relation+reasoning+tricks+in+english+pdf, which is flagged as malicious. The numerous links, including those to shopify.com, suggest a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content.

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=blood+relation+reasoning+tricks+in+english+pdf
    • http://files.amygibbstherapies.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775387/0afd55.pdf
    • http://files.fabianastro.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164440/ad644760b0e4f0b.pdf
    • http://files.trextutoring.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303337/bumanupepa_zuxagufa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2790/7239/files/67867740986.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0126/6851/files/archetypal_criticism.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6349/1222/files/72122199442.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7538/7043/files/graduation_announcement_examples.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9370/4356/files/kexonemuvoroti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1632/1184/files/67675780702.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5218/7298/files/all_functions_in_excel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9432/6949/files/91086975607.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4973/8650/files/rogobijugawolilukuwivul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7110/1338/files/63717707598.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9083/6645/files/gojoxizanimituf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4687/1974/files/sokusivax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3538/6275/files/libetami.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_off000066fd.bin
89b872c94f340cd31f72a897a4ec8f055beb943b55862f78b3a42f7e822beeeb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66FD 5528 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000079cd.bin
e8d94ece04426e81e0abf8ee36839faaa25bedd81d0c1b1a76cbdc7211d9a24e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79CD 10588 bytes