Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6921cc9b2abb8d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-20 06:23:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: de1a363a5ead29c2d3868f656eaff299 SHA-1: 5ae7aa23b7dff372c822e68437c74f0881433d56 SHA-256: f6921cc9b2abb8d55c1f52afa649437811f70ca313a4138bcd9a33460eecc93e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged for containing a mass external link farm and a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=presentation+template+free+vector', which is likely used to redirect users to a malicious site. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDF links suggests an attempt to leverage SEO or create a deceptive appearance of legitimacy.

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=presentation+template+free+vector
    • http://files.roxbury5k.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408970/2952171.pdf
    • http://varib.jonrawlingsphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775048/4008536.pdf
    • http://gesupovu.tourtrax.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682883/kerejur.pdf
    • http://files.alittledevotion.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739864/tunakijokofikefo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4579/6512/files/kamageguxujepopamunaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1375/9395/files/51946815596.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6884/2393/files/meretameluzagimiwil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9558/8002/files/sofifosevumet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5331/8298/files/ahmedabad_tourist_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9717/0847/files/patricia_benner_novice_to_expert.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1137/5267/files/58330675005.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0803/2922/files/abba_dancing_queen_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9938/2170/files/jeroposedoliv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4672/2974/files/nepimaluvuvutupekonazuxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9373/7118/files/zuxevu.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_off0000673a.bin
874ca5bcde669dc455471367ad8da1d8596c8f16abcfd347b298af864a564f21
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x673A 5220 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078e8.bin
92347adb8541b53eaaf68ea075e62d5c84ebf322aeac2c3491815446c8152013
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78E8 10180 bytes