Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7debaf27bebaf1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-04 16:00:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d3addb5defdcce12d9536b995a0d234c SHA-1: c5ec034ace5fcc816928b60b247638973f516d28 SHA-256: e7debaf27bebaf1e91e32ef1666b9346496bca73c4bd00deb94ee61c8ecd0314
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=algebra+and+trigonometry+10th+edition+michael+sullivan+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, further supports the SEO-based link farm 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.cc/pify?keyword=algebra+and+trigonometry+10th+edition+michael+sullivan+pdf
    • http://files.covenantsouthfield.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873804/6bb1a278b8.pdf
    • http://files.loveandmercyfdc.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857071/tazowirujuvimi.pdf
    • http://files.michellelashier.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380354/kefukiriw-benonesu-kolaxu.pdf
    • http://files.topflightsoccertours.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775465/sadetojisofakobopura.pdf
    • http://fesawu.roxandsol.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379246/296553.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3332/0872/files/vogovefusera.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4456/9242/files/49097107277.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3656/5923/files/binodojidugaxilav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7144/6939/files/tewado.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/pinabazebovo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/90142435821.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6117/4684/files/fegeliditeti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2931/5229/files/72699905627.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5398/9534/files/zajitulejonapuxalen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9212/4572/files/vopofadidave.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5717/6986/files/35511674264.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_off00006181.bin
98caca8984faa9717db1f287cabef5bf82296965c92bf6fa8412ad012d878ebd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6181 6056 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007606.bin
555e7cb5e713344d573a7654089ad9f051e07ceeff84b53ce1a358d06a70826a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7606 10048 bytes