Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e05caceb80a6603…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.3 KB Created: 2020-07-28 15:08:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2a1dca6af86766c8869977549b8e880b SHA-1: 7210fe64f3b8827353ddf4ca2a8c578eac2e7de6 SHA-256: 1e05caceb80a660354c18a31e940be4661d3d9bbc8d5311b0a864bbfa7f8411c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs hosted on platforms like Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Hungry Shark' and 'unlocked apk', suggesting a lure for potentially unwanted software or a scam. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious links is sufficient evidence of malicious intent.

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=hungry+shark+all+sharks+unlocked+apk
    • http://files.christophersorrentino.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740112/riweretaresad-parajovitozuwu.pdf
    • http://files.phyzarre.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776272/6886123.pdf
    • http://files.ladyteeproductions.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969588/1667280.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7404/3556/files/17403512094.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6173/0719/files/feliwelivenududurodefeba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3755/5864/files/kubomemekekiduki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tedogunugovosilogupex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6640/1692/files/46342710070.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5126/0823/files/mulibenupivarupilurefelu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2328/5920/files/fananumikanipexumaji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9168/0666/files/26388717811.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3905/5253/files/48242359.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1042/4993/files/285645473.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5165/5076/files/febesajodizeroxirefafove.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/90442425312.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/f

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000777e.bin
e2281e723593bdb9482ef4cf04a52dc3978693e30474e63cadd90033e78c4c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x777E 5216 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008924.bin
05fb1a9df01232c7ccdc5a5f2f780268ff155367bc913ef8e6de29cfb660ba1b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8924 10260 bytes