Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2808d3b5222a0f81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-08-25 14:40:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f4b6c83b430f8ef69d5db3dd93d31ca6 SHA-1: 2bdae2a4654f707896b81fa817fe658276d6e43f SHA-256: 2808d3b5222a0f819bc795bb9be1b02f673eec918ec70f239a871a7875bc53fd
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous Shopify URLs, likely to improve search engine ranking for the malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=5+day+week+calendar+template, is identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests it's designed to funnel users to external, potentially harmful, content.

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=5+day+week+calendar+template
    • http://files.myhogshedstudiopottery.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383541/88239271799.pdf
    • http://bebizojo.nh-ahn.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637027/2237488.pdf
    • http://files.blog.nasflmuseum.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163736/40d32b6ff8.pdf
    • http://files.nutmeg-labradoodles.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483281/5493668.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1514/2567/files/11928663505.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6880/1695/files/79857751391.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6414/7609/files/adversus_jovinianum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2168/1315/files/examining_digit_place_values_common_core_sheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2270/2999/files/fegatarikinasosevizida.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3011/7526/files/17378793901.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6944/8096/files/wejofetipigavapen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9153/3725/files/visuparopaxelod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6537/5908/files/virik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3798/2869/files/remamokaroti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8701/8649/files/44402914969.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_off000076c4.bin
b2d25a2453126664063621159eee58d4d35cc010799d9248a5b4d9fd40111e67
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76C4 5328 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000088e4.bin
aec332197d3d6642740fd73fe21ffb7b5a89c133cea715a96b217cc45b0c36cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88E4 10008 bytes