Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe0b3f8c7c4cfd87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-08-16 19:52:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 19e31d144ff082532086f1b2a1517214 SHA-1: 768e49b268830a7dcf9eb90230be1c7b8dd4f810 SHA-256: fe0b3f8c7c4cfd8760dd9be9e045cdc979d36dd77c2858387d5c6481a9dbf138
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a "fire incident report" lure and embeds a large number of external links. One critical heuristic firing indicates that the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=fire+incident+report+format+pdf`. While many embedded links point to benign Shopify URLs, the presence of the malicious redirector and the sheer volume of links suggest a link farm designed to distribute malware or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used for the malicious delivery.

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=fire+incident+report+format+pdf
    • http://files.apartmentstenerife.ie/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164152/dipevugif_fexuzodexujuta_kexifezuzawadup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6709/7756/files/videoder_apk_free_for_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6815/2216/files/12950395481.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0877/6599/files/the_rocking_horse_winner_movie.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8184/2341/files/4860408861.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7143/1065/files/gevozagevaku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2182/7222/files/1630354790.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1984/4258/files/ci_android_auto_cho_mazda_connect.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6856/3355/files/minecraft_mega_builds.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2707/8052/files/ge_xl44_igniter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1826/4469/files/nupogelirivinolovazuto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5392/1957/files/lepuneputesasomokipoda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6965/files/can_t_take_my_eyes_off_you_piano_sheet.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_off000079f1.bin
c71368d0f71239ecffe7cfd25473a65356efada95e4a1960e5b48d3c1f2c0edc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79F1 5044 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008af7.bin
dc07f582f8e8c39de08bba0748504a7688b37a34ac113286cd9bb6625a67c9e8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AF7 10692 bytes