Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc85abaaeb985856…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.6 KB Created: 2020-08-19 05:31:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 12a9729f996235c6a61c388f9cc19b7a SHA-1: 60b8cf88d205f5de99fb9822e6dda1f191ef32d9 SHA-256: fc85abaaeb9858561c77a64f9450517d3f6f29c2ccb316713609ed9a37c43f76
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to shopify.com, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. One of the embedded URLs, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=android+capture+back+button, is identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body contains garbled text but includes the same malicious URL, reinforcing its role in a potential phishing or redirection scheme.

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=android+capture+back+button
    • http://files.williamhern.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683188/zukazawuxe.pdf
    • http://files.birthwithjoy.love/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383860/ropuwotetuzereguzime.pdf
    • http://files.fremontbeertogo.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681576/2017169.pdf
    • http://gebitoju.partnershipfortheartsgroup.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/dokije-sagonawufoni.pdf
    • http://files.affordableinsurancedirect.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873783/katipiwa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/dejozetopugewafapo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8570/1025/files/catholic_daily_prayers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4430/7098/files/wutazefivipuga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2423/6199/files/exercises_for_lower_back_pain_relief.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7327/4018/files/tomamokigopuwuguxutetonev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8733/0464/files/32897694668.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2764/5095/files/2011_ford_fusion_owners_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5762/6792/files/22203094695.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2478/5319/files/ksb_multistage_centrifugal_pump.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3705/6414/files/dizatok.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_off00009fc2.bin
e1c8cce58b39ab440284e3096ca74fbac4560304573a665f853c63b79e2e05e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9FC2 5048 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b0f1.bin
136ea5d3bd4337ae8efda5c0802b74bffd80479929b17d6acb1942b3227da777
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0F1 13944 bytes