Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e7badb6d16d3014…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-31 12:41:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 26a8ebc90e667b802c2bcb1253da7562 SHA-1: fd7beaee4d5d33bf442b7321ddadf6306ef42c90 SHA-256: 3e7badb6d16d30140e530a9838aae5e0e9dc05ef72c9b45cb3075192063c4685
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=dell+inspiron+560+specs', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Dell inspiron 560 specs', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve search engine ranking for malicious content or to obscure the final malicious destination. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.cc/wix?keyword=dell+inspiron+560+specs
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3145/2053/files/mefesopevulur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8259/6000/files/keto_diet_for_beginners_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3508/1374/files/simon_sinek_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1647/6056/files/airport_utility_5._6._1_mac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bd5c68_d668cb7a572c4c4c9d9de50580871760.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a838c0_1672310a1442496ab6fef67b87a87bdc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/10e3af_c616cb78d2754b7fa5fd398028949c7b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_94283133bc734ca2853e7868c2078e9b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/39cb9d_b9fee877920e4a7aa7d5cba4e1d0678c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7e6083_f0f6a4fa9e664acab18f15b138ac1e94.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7a48f3dce772440195f05f96363dcfef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2862/8124/files/cuestionario_sf_12_calidad_de_vida.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7537/0136/files/sukanek.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_off00005d85.bin
3531c73a9b8b4e71467fdbb0f0aa2a6ebd9dc0795abb7a06f8e944960fcf88e8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D85 5136 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f1a.bin
45922c2de79487691e05d9e2254dfa88bd5b64de75dacc8b514dd2d55f2cc493
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F1A 15608 bytes