Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f87cf0ff9dd01f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-14 23:33:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f7ac72b1b96bacc4f16cf0b48862a1a7 SHA-1: d6ea4d53bcdc444cfe40197b28c7b436f8d2906d SHA-256: 2f87cf0ff9dd01f80728654b8066ef7feba96f23dc8a308b77fb7320e20a51d5
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.com, which is disguised as a guide for combining PDF files. The document body and embedded URLs suggest a social engineering lure to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous SEO-optimized PDF links further supports a malicious intent to distribute 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/wb?keyword=how%20to%20combine%20pdf%20files%20in%20adobe%20reader%207
    • http://files.alohabaseballclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070604/9603816.pdf
    • http://suforob.lebaneseaustralianfriendship.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636725/lisaxakilewulas_somulizezis_titip_muzofa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6542/6598/files/kuvujeponefepopi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9291/8937/files/zununavolune.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2797/9678/files/the_principal_source_wow_classic.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6162/2437/files/learn_guitar_chords_for_beginners.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4908/2264/files/13032973924.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3011/6509/files/printable_2018_monthly_calendar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7758/0453/files/29060373362.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9747/3699/files/xuvuwove.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/64459149164.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3497/6157/files/45527160454.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/12319118289.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4345/4102/files/letter_e_tracing_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xozujegemuzudileruzodedus.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_off0000613c.bin
f88aa023c008fff26a539ace821ca2d833db078c2b8bf49aec1a56cc38732e92
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x613C 5576 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007428.bin
0dc1987b00c55cbba4f1ccc0efdeafa41a2643fca7c388f853b771eab0a817b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7428 10220 bytes