Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c17512c33e07933…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-09-05 16:02:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f39cfd6685fb751b88df61ad29ed6d6f SHA-1: 483ff30a4054c0e36a1a4bfdcb3534a93f7a9a2f SHA-256: 1c17512c33e079331e2d07bd40a223e05b6281e91933e4bc7a80caa3011d9e0f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=application+bin+format'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, including one to 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6495/0945/files/waterfall_chart_excel_template_xls.pdf'. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious redirector links strongly suggests 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.me/wix?keyword=application+bin+format
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6495/0945/files/waterfall_chart_excel_template_xls.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5335/6955/files/jorewafolopusaxijalegone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6903/6958/files/isosceles_triangle_theorems_worksheet_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9898/8954/files/bumefemirezugojamazeloba.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d32f78_914c6daae9094af3bfe14fed27d0f780.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/5630/3002/files/zazapaboziwigirokaxaburo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5899/4088/files/pseudo_affinity_chromatography.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6170/5888/files/original_bhagavad_gita_in_malayalam.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a18aa6_485e28ae89154cb7be21528cc82b16f3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fb5067_84bdddd28b85496daaa71895be22ab95.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_off00005f3d.bin
bb7b85ce1f7cb5dd6b1ccba006c3e7376133af4abb61cd9283586bb3d31b80ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F3D 5112 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000708e.bin
33ccc22b95244693fb459c29b158900a5ff2e654d7dd6009813220b24df1be10
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x708E 14480 bytes