Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48084d6aeac86d6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.9 KB Created: 2020-08-19 00:01:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1765f3053116338d180fd2b7ba382f07 SHA-1: a455bf7f433173444754544e0c14ce5c7316dc5b SHA-256: 48084d6aeac86d6a8316ff8d114578c8e6d724c0c5e1df6bfe0185a445e76e81
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=first+lego+league+challenge+guide+city+shaper'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other Shopify links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=first+lego+league+challenge+guide+city+shaper
    • http://lisateguf.nourishdiy.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407469/bononanoke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6424/5925/files/komatsu_d_575a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2009/0535/files/programa_escolar_de_proteccion_civil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1984/6311/files/el_aparato_digestivo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7410/0127/files/imessage_for_android_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7899/9446/files/nuzogobepekasixafupize.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3797/2897/files/biwujir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9054/2743/files/pevojiwijalido.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/0334/0968/files/field_report_on_yamuna_biodiversity_park.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9945/4629/files/94673264116.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4230/8250/files/90990103874.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2853/7753/files/refusajorupemekomukivu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4306/0901/files/55583388232.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_off000051c1.bin
1339d603206095873a2865805661382009a3587f1278ac5455ce79e910705789
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x51C1 5392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006415.bin
3d33a9bd3941c3e2cbe5fcc9976eea47020dcc4a45fb585f1abecff228c31b79
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6415 10856 bytes