Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e270ad319c4c683…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-02 18:22:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e92e2216e676f60d4b09053a0ddb5cbc SHA-1: b524c1139913192833601f684adc64d12837b6b3 SHA-256: 1e270ad319c4c683d46689d995c05a737fe0c4dc79dab2a3924f9e636c3387aa
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector (ttraff.cc). The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body appears to be heavily obfuscated or corrupted, but the presence of the malicious redirector URL and the link farm heuristic suggest a phishing or redirection attack. The primary intent appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via the embedded links.

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.cc/pify?keyword=clean+code+comments
    • http://files.clinicaespacosaudebeleza.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163872/d00290233b6.pdf
    • http://files.focusonvisionandvisionloss.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874154/wugezasupapesajejize.pdf
    • http://files.keithrobertson.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969352/mavumamurokil_jevala_nikemav_gomunofibu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3723/7148/files/43984297917.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6387/8566/files/kejowopete.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3093/6732/files/67409021147.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4959/9651/files/mitchell_collision_estimating_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7976/8995/files/33059757063.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8910/0951/files/18852544513.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pekazojifedabefotekufof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7512/5923/files/40193469796.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7408/5279/files/79408569362.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4470/9276/files/muzapivofosinerokudor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9243/4326/files/gisetoxagevisarenoge.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0443/6390/files/73675207961.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_off000069b4.bin
d0536786e098f89156892703fb918d3a87808ad2b580f22914ff46bb534cb7e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69B4 4892 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a41.bin
dd5ac7914a6dace6d80ccc5998df1a3177216e13f572d950f0c66727a7775bd5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A41 10552 bytes