Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1efe3742b30f0216…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-14 00:10:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ce94487088ebc6c83341a1d9cf1a5c62 SHA-1: f3447698c89028ee448e3df7f8aea4b4cb793e49 SHA-256: 1efe3742b30f0216a2c35799890949c91352ae3816a76a39fcd126dc6333257e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and contains numerous embedded links. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector service, ttraff.com, which likely serves to obfuscate the ultimate malicious destination. Another heuristic identified a large link farm within the PDF, suggesting a tactic to distribute malicious links broadly.

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=guidelines+liver+enzymes
    • http://tapadin.blueframeart.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637056/6950906.pdf
    • http://files.wintercreekwildlifeartunlimited.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437725/9114791.pdf
    • http://files.candacelapan.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379510/0bb45e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/0312/0537/files/soursop_seeds.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2553/8980/files/51673439636.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1899/3320/files/33983796125.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8748/6358/files/vawexan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5774/0967/files/spelling_test_for_grade_4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7368/3112/files/27753983548.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/1402562920.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xuwuvedalolavotidexetugom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2218/6656/files/different_types_of_addressing_modes_in_computer_architecture.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1423/2984/files/zalejuwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9626/7168/files/java_foundations.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3320/6690/files/79703978951.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/rofimoluxita.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_off000060a0.bin
17a3c26f316208dcadc55431abfb73187ef4514e9a8e22771239fe995961c751
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60A0 5004 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000719e.bin
a261e8d2af51a8892b03c3a424a279a3f5be98b00b30b90b2177cc85e81cda7b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x719E 10060 bytes