Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 150d36468ae3d873…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-09-08 16:45:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: be8a63c4da0146761d5ef8574e727e5f SHA-1: 43d3d5c54358aee09e194b7781fdf9bb8195a361 SHA-256: 150d36468ae3d873e9a12ad80951d895635bc08f4629f3115ace19fc6514afce
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=facebook+messenger+developer+guide`. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the malicious URL and the benign-looking "Facebook messenger developer guide" lure. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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.club/wix?keyword=facebook+messenger+developer+guide
    • https:///webhook
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9262/9917/files/51122939764.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1046/5698/files/structural_and_functional_classification_of_joints.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9872/5793/files/evansville_police_department_incident_reports.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0595/9574/files/agile_coaching_competency_framework.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9464/6689/files/vejetew.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e4f6f0_022b3d18deab4371a805e924c743bcbe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7e6083_dbd2dcc4ac8c4fe0bcbf1f4072abbf37.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b7f0dcd2498b4ed391d20b788fddc300.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1130/7682/files/77847365445.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2290/1663/files/photoshop_how_to_unlock_layer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5992/7448/files/19665442279.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9291/8937/files/24587289395.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8994/3971/files/simple_admin_template_bootstrap_4.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000695f.bin
a6e8ae82e56ce4d55e9a0a6bd2416da4cd22db1ea7211b9cd5adb103b325de6d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x695F 5612 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c61.bin
55f9fe5ed3a16dde81c5dc2f4ddbfeb8fe6551c0a1dada242fd455961f4b24bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C61 12116 bytes