Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41ea7bff7ef37d18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-21 00:23:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0fc4e81c70009cc8d15ba06428cf2920 SHA-1: 6a9ed804e972e38106df841c9572977d9c133567 SHA-256: 41ea7bff7ef37d18247483a0c1e336eab4cbd976c4198323d0f87d3bfc233597
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one URL pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=hotel+california+saxophone+sheet+music', which is likely intended to trick the user into clicking through to a malicious site. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=hotel+california+saxophone+sheet+music
    • http://bebevore.dzabahe.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739811/2291846.pdf
    • http://files.radiantsunrisewellness.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453902/pejakisadub.pdf
    • http://files.technolytix.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453657/df60ae18a79.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3880/2073/files/vokufamoru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/29529942485.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3830/8512/files/bookmarks_in_word_not_working_in.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4313/5393/files/p90x_fitness_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1055/5034/files/84282861042.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2790/6206/files/arrl_rfi_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0705/7825/files/caries_dental_articulos_cientificos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xifenawapuvesuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3803/1518/files/mefowisexekidoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2872/5405/files/35426570182.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0764/7639/files/icloud_for_windows_photo_library.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005c09.bin
3938da5c48e5841a47f8e55afb62d98cb5a38a1b7c26b28d5a07a11fb5cbf711
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C09 5164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d65.bin
de5be6484fdeb760823ba4b312e32a7b5a16864d4bb8d695dad0c91ff42a6504
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D65 10192 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009038.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9038 4324 bytes