Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec84cbfffaf10312…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.5 KB Created: 2020-08-18 21:08:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f149b3e5077bd254540d4ec28753dd15 SHA-1: 89ae04c047173328d5bdeeeff25efc128143c6a5 SHA-256: ec84cbfffaf10312d9a3a51d92e202136d5ce5f240d199d2c52facbaf73070b1
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=notifi+elite+video+doorbell+installation+manual'. This URL is embedded within the document body, disguised as an installation manual. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify domains. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves social engineering through a deceptive lure to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure.

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=notifi+elite+video+doorbell+installation+manual
    • http://numujev.jukeboxarcade.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070374/rosasimawe-zemot.pdf
    • http://files.abigaildennistonphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776204/165574.pdf
    • http://files.futurefoundationsct.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406535/pupuxiko-xakaladila-sisamuderu-towurix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5050/6152/files/lititilexujad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4907/4336/files/96128185204.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6479/5044/files/mopibon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fadanamimurusekebunom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8067/9577/files/pdf_to_word_converter_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8553/6159/files/zikiro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9354/1532/files/31920385782.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4190/7100/files/86295004536.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8531/5739/files/zibuligo.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000043c9.bin
0bd241b69540cce15da7d5ca32237cbbb264e58ff9ddebb0de1c478339194bb4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x43C9 5220 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005577.bin
e2cc39ce521793d6ad518fb4e70b3c5e00b0ea6e68e80391a76439e774869bc8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5577 9880 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007769.bin
0865ea5686e30d19842a941efae749c2e92da649021023aa876fc32c67f43dd0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7769 16232 bytes