Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1dfe456c7a40f594…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-21 03:15:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f8767565eeb8b592fa53d9fbd940202f SHA-1: f14f3dd554ce81c352df637ffb387ae4dc0048c0 SHA-256: 1dfe456c7a40f594c11d383231c05b0de5701a1fbabf5b1bcd6f6d80ff35df9e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link to 'ttraff.com', identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially garbled, includes text related to 'Infection control practices and guidelines', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The PDF also contains a large number of links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking and disguise malicious activity. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector is the embedded 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=infection+control+practices+and+guidelines
    • http://files.maartenderidder.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384573/270d872fa0d6.pdf
    • http://muzimot.dentalelle.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/85c68336b7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0685/3269/files/optional_attendance_form_tdsb_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/7138/2180/files/polusakusifarerugemomarex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/7938/6534/files/vekenorijidivugewazorosi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9899/5864/files/13828805456.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/1400/0538/files/someone_to_trust_mary_balogh.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6942/1206/files/zepimedodusefuji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8491/4583/files/86642926929.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6393/4109/files/76314293869.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9386/1279/files/pipefitter_blue_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0204/4316/files/56997866296.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4351/8629/files/86694048007.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_off00007198.bin
270a172e2fcb8c14e771755d5c09e79689c4ec12bfb4db6936fa3de72f125e2a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7198 5260 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008376.bin
33d6eddf19e7963e130be871809240e23aaed5ba7d676c6a9546e4049300b5ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8376 10088 bytes