Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d948c2b0eec2075…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.4 KB Created: 2020-08-18 23:47:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ed8ee8f7b37e2fde863cc60f2da855e5 SHA-1: 7461d19812d22986e5d5ed44a1e7375e52d5988f SHA-256: 2d948c2b0eec2075c9dcf67215be10c7c08f64910ece880112fc7b5b819390ce
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 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=finding+averages+worksheet+pdf'. This indicates a social engineering attempt to lure users to malicious infrastructure under the guise of a worksheet. The document also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is characteristic of SEO link farm techniques used to obscure malicious intent. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=finding+averages+worksheet+pdf
    • http://files.yogaforhorseriders.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814674/duwofa.pdf
    • http://files.brookekferguson.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407102/4299148.pdf
    • http://maket.mbmusic.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/e3b35ebb11.pdf
    • http://nupas.garriotthomes.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380065/f86e34c6e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7885/2507/files/vugadepudovusezinu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2589/9426/files/random_song_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6057/5912/files/runalikevava.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8379/1526/files/vedoluvanudu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9476/8792/files/recover_browser_history_on_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9462/0837/files/44384030230.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6192/6293/files/brother_in_arms_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5335/1066/files/favonojaluji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3990/6197/files/photo_license_center.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2675/0357/files/74326065805.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_off00007b05.bin
3a5677c3fe3c2d733b2820c0d0b4dd67dd964cb2501107e3859d0e34a4452bf2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B05 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008da1.bin
edd8f4456fa9e77b71d57c9988d4ea53a7b47fec3b36e1b513f97ff164b67700
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DA1 10192 bytes