Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ff6b58160a9d3e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.0 KB Created: 2020-08-07 08:37:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 107d4993acf967f7d201e49b0d53c66c SHA-1: e2c6adea822aa06b8d494bb79e1c1768969c67fe SHA-256: 3ff6b58160a9d3e9261432b8e714fc76f183d675c64ae1bb7cf08bc3e81c7e7c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com, and one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.cc). The document body, though obfuscated, contains text related to 'adjectives worksheets for grade 1 pdf', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a malicious redirector confirms the intent to lead users to 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.cc/pify?keyword=adjectives+worksheets+for+grade+1+pdf
    • http://files.oppositeofberlin.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874360/8131011.pdf
    • http://files.stakeranimalcremations.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437064/piforofegore.pdf
    • http://files.schuttvision.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606094/zakaripalirukodefivi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7985/0397/files/evocative_objects_turkle.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/35940853121.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7253/4168/files/comment_runir_plusieurs_pages_en_un_seul_document.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6127/8885/files/doxusebozuvovavaxesibu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7969/5517/files/butterbrottten_sterne_vorlagen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9664/6556/files/jasuxuwudatezutadiguw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wuwikeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2528/5798/files/26677240647.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4869/5958/files/55730965005.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5601/9109/files/kuhs_b_pharm_syllabus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9204/0097/files/tozajawudikekaxuziwafe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5586/6263/files/mimukixofixajulodu.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_off0000471a.bin
fbcfde9c5c02f3ad95acfd42a517c08877fdb59797bcdcb62d4fa6c5234eb661
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x471A 5720 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005ab4.bin
4e99e308309002280d19d4e448db6fe0558cae7f5f8729753b585d9715d7079d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AB4 9624 bytes