Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6fb185aad86d236…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-31 16:15:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0e2c375092c331b5fc144a84748838ff SHA-1: 21ae0fe46cfea6ebad81c0ec916d4798e1f0a1ac SHA-256: e6fb185aad86d2361ba7cda048f5e946f5fcf6b2a6060c94ede2f136ef1bbf45
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a significant number of embedded links. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=microsoft+business+letter+template+free', points to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is a primary lure. The presence of a link farm indicates a potential SEO poisoning or phishing campaign.

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=microsoft+business+letter+template+free
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6972/5080/files/ultramind_solution_by_mark_hyman.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6518/6206/files/87066191078.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8849/5270/files/bosudeza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2280/3363/files/82063699641.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5995/3312/files/cacar_air_adalah.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2710/2887/files/amagami_english_patch.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4161/9105/files/sure_universal_remote_app.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3759/7596/files/palonigesobefivibunejege.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6309/1112/files/65035421725.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7029/9038/files/xezinadijum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6404/9318/files/ridokiximivomagimifupo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8575/8617/files/sedezat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0953/2323/files/automation_studio_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2758/6457/files/zifida.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3380/5471/files/22570407708.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1947/4856/files/refaravomugibirid.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_off000062d2.bin
0786728ae0d47ed58c971604904923ed520d12e1ac911bdd7a0e567c7911ef19
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62D2 5304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074ce.bin
5dc28468ac2e77126566d800b35c7e9eaaf012ff8cb55b850573d9d12479d517
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74CE 10128 bytes