Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ce40d0c2cf4763f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.3 KB Created: 2020-08-17 10:43:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1f9d92759600d90662f9264b3561e5b5 SHA-1: f9c54ab549e0114695d799eb24922b6a2aee1048 SHA-256: 1ce40d0c2cf4763f842ec9c956751ea9633d0e0be97b0cc2c83a8d0a9b6fcb22
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is disguised as a 'vowel sounds worksheet pdf'. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various PDF files, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering through a deceptive document title, leading to a malicious URL.

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.com/pify?keyword=vowel+sounds+worksheet+pdf
    • http://sobusezo.hrwa.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776394/6155424.pdf
    • http://pukoluten.puremichiganminiaussies.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637136/ce03018245ffab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7546/0515/files/ac_market_2017_new_version.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8529/9876/files/descargar_diccionario_biblico_ilustrado_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0868/7269/files/kajuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2690/6264/files/sourcetree_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7991/6963/files/8404460542.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9900/4827/files/23418879490.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0521/3847/files/5793487299.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7699/3695/files/71811284894.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6163/1384/files/52276168728.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9444/2145/files/pulizoxuxolavurewono.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3127/2346/files/zupepekinukasasonopip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2742/3654/files/rujamejitotalilikeri.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000480d.bin
08cf17d26584f69ad70a93737e6b1b05d47f379bf1a804abcf932094cbd68805
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x480D 4872 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000058a9.bin
d9f6a14d98d1712d8a66fe9a473e82695a1efc3f02171c0626c332c5048f7260
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58A9 9904 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007a55.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A55 4324 bytes