Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eec348169377e9e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.0 KB Created: 2020-08-02 06:14:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eaf6e60006067a01dd62948285d1616b SHA-1: 3877268a6a0d088a6d4e35f9b9e32d281bd16819 SHA-256: eec348169377e9e36116f1c837b1cc32ffa7c149c45899863a7e57ce3310c850
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=speer+load+data'. Additionally, another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, with the first URL being 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5122/1146/files/zefana.pdf'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, reinforcing its malicious intent.

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=speer+load+data
    • http://files.thedinopark.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740415/6535022.pdf
    • http://files.sacazeandpartners.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873872/dubanalaxutalajir.pdf
    • http://files.aniasorganics.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070539/430a8290c85.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5122/1146/files/zefana.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9490/7810/files/banco_de_provincial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3671/2861/files/29899464785.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9456/5271/files/98459631970.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2567/7992/files/buvatin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5598/0445/files/super_pose_book_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8722/4213/files/stick_to_your_guns_meaning.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8369/4247/files/55095047572.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0304/4263/files/kenidupesixanos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1746/2182/files/samum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9646/5823/files/namuraweta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8803/6515/files/minecraft_mob_spawn_light_level.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c734.bin
e37522e2ea68a36ae0741d768b98caedf620c42b6ff7131b0c14ba782867a2c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC734 4876 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7d6.bin
b364d93d3844dfd5d3765ecd1a6f0a01a8e37ec1c9438f4b0a8fddfc938e778d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7D6 10588 bytes