Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4257443ee489b635…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-09-05 07:15:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2c6b3d4729f9fc5126a5269c4874e881 SHA-1: 9494dfedb07813c38e7cba8db3444ffa67a5395d SHA-256: 4257443ee489b635bbdbc317de588a93f86203966747da5beb1bdb76d7b33066
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDFs. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.link/pify?keyword=synaptics+touchpad+driver', is identified as a malicious redirector. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector suggests a phishing or scam attempt, likely aiming to lure users to malicious content or exploit kits. 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.link/pify?keyword=synaptics+touchpad+driver
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0453/6303/6315/files/goleman_leadership_styles.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8738/1155/files/sotewefukozu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/73875000904.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mosagewenusuwaguxizekud.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9c43ec_e3bd4c41b6c24cb9982a24831d5779d2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/822ecd_78f6a3dbda574fa3b7ffebe0d08e62d9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d2751c_febca45b2df24ef1bdf002a7cff2f1ef.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fedf23_f0d1c8f2ef194522a0a860df7056763a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63022f_e40f5345d4fe4e49a2f23202b680fd76.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4e6dd5_6634adfb66f84dcbae26cd1c5520c558.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6f9b04_ed4bd301c6ae4e6a9b53827c33c1df90.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ee4d88_fcfe2ce53daf457794487270f70b9b8f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/003b86_ba2d6e0f20044c41a2d587dc87c7cfe9.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_off000051cd.bin
27bd6ede5612b38de555b2a0221f9eb845cd74ca3f48256e2372be10a1b6421c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x51CD 5392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006424.bin
ee197d729b239601c3b39e34f562db16082b0b5da84c285d30271b65b89f4930
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6424 14492 bytes