Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbddf20de52e3c35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-08-31 08:51:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 34233ca65622a2ee8bdd4c42129c2bc9 SHA-1: dc9f66f2d375393f5852b7c580afe0367f051dfa SHA-256: fbddf20de52e3c35f647f0e8ef2064770b4dcddf78dafad20d0f9d77a417ef07
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. It also exhibits a PDF link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=assassin%252527s+creed+guided+or+exploration', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body contains garbled text but includes the same URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector points towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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/wix?keyword=assassin%252527s+creed+guided+or+exploration
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6859/6123/files/82403012229.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5306/2046/files/char_broil_infrared_3_burner_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1188/9573/files/a_blood_type_diet_food_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4126/6587/files/sabok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1234/9334/files/chemistry_placement_test.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9560/4891/files/91029848347.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1581/2773/files/tibozu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4028/5607/files/zikodijawepabediro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6271/4773/files/87115798060.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8037/5704/files/jekabodafivixiwusamojaga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1733/1100/files/cells_involved_in_immune_system.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5005/7373/files/ap_literature_practice_exam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5711/8374/files/charmed_1998_dublado.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/dosodasanofesawule.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_off000064ac.bin
f3dea800aee6f7cf2eaabf409ac32d314199c9a998f61d1bd841c2228831dc5b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64AC 5332 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000076dd.bin
1246972b3cf285d5ba2feb3940a8d6f5f4b3d73a8bb161b2beba4911b13ae7d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76DD 9760 bytes