Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28968391a4ee304c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

140.0 KB Created: 2020-08-22 07:08:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 383dad4b5f904ea71f6a68eaca4ca0a3 SHA-1: bf4ba0534b60b27f8778aaa6a73e7efb7fca9648 SHA-256: 28968391a4ee304c1a7ed422f2edd12fca9ff402e23179afe93bf753bfcdf61d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is designed to lure users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links hosted on shopify.com and other domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9751

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=the+answer+to+everything+is+42+movie
    • http://files.pngonlinetrade.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483249/rojuvejupupiza.pdf
    • http://files.jamquest.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453861/4840432.pdf
    • http://files.whittaylorcomics.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740595/kevotamefakulus.pdf
    • http://files.strgir.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873868/4381992.pdf
    • http://files.mddedcelks.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383998/7162934.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0051/8040/files/90321634606.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0591/9903/files/rifuwofujivibine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1243/1776/files/nupizolejafulugeni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4829/6863/files/65712576962.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2536/6165/files/56753144579.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1561/7182/files/after_12th_science_courses_list_pcb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7870/4549/files/chemistry_quiz_questions_and_answers_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9105/7058/files/karoluxabed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6264/7191/files/tuvelafe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2813/5591/files/esab_pcm_875.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5121/9104/files/80828037491.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 12

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
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decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1797B 3204 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123F1 6744 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B7C 5488 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E1E 3792 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C08 4892 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off00016bde.bin
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16BDE 3600 bytes
font_06_sfnt_off0001865f.bin
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1865F 5612 bytes
font_07_sfnt_off000199a6.bin
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x199A6 2812 bytes
font_08_sfnt_off0001a5f9.bin
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A5F9 6476 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B738 19508 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1EFDD 19624 bytes
font_11_sfnt_off00021107.bin
dfca31268cb36367e44c29d80ac6d57124a4a863b1deb62a7c217727ab33a636
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21107 3284 bytes