Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd096c55adc616c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.2 KB Created: 2020-08-29 22:45:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d8d7d74caea5a575cd1a3d75ff7175a7 SHA-1: 359da4f898fa86becd04d3ddc994106ec99206f0 SHA-256: fd096c55adc616c2686ed752ca45d7316819a031482b9f8b0dc419a9d1c48e3c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=joe+cross+mean+green', which is flagged as malicious. Additionally, the PDF acts as a link farm, with numerous links to other PDFs hosted on Shopify, one of which is also listed as a potential IOC. The primary attack vector appears to be luring the user to click on the malicious redirector link.

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/wix?keyword=joe+cross+mean+green
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/51220099535.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7217/5781/files/performance_review_questions_and_answers_for_employees.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6567/0806/files/forex_risk_management_strategies.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3590/1602/files/install_multiple_packages_in_r.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8148/2919/files/joramutomunafowadegegi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8833/7303/files/72465199440.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0563/9836/files/cascading_style_sheets_codes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7296/9109/files/21761264277.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/6386/1405/files/corpse_bride_piano_duet_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1270/1854/files/wonawa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8673/1671/files/pedivalavus.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_off00004b20.bin
bd39d345e2b2742d2022b514748093ce64ee8a3e3b58ea31d744661632021fb9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B20 5076 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005c49.bin
63a413ef005b9c0b00b981b05f88ad7e5b8221663ff0adc78f9877b3d0198445
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C49 10732 bytes