Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4810b2c423c6fde2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.4 KB Created: 2020-08-14 10:45:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 22cf90473485f7eaa9d2a960d1881266 SHA-1: 996edc9e53e872b7bdd6a5749060686ba336ae5b SHA-256: 4810b2c423c6fde23299fbc280d0b42c3d2e4435be7cd6fd1a6af22fd5f3b4f2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link disguised as 'Yugioh rules pdf' which redirects to malicious infrastructure at ttraff.com. The document also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic confirms the presence of a malicious redirector.

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/wb?keyword=yugioh%20rules%20pdf
    • http://files.paysonsda.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814411/1292187.pdf
    • http://files.bayfieldgardens.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775126/bobajaxezewifivo.pdf
    • http://files.devizessportsclub.org.uk/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712011/rufifivojope.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3503/1712/files/kagawato.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4909/8148/files/jobokajenesojopolubijet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2134/3652/files/rock_cycle_worksheet_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/duwaxufezemurogagur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0932/5730/files/types_of_validity_in_testing.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3577/0535/files/wibodiwibopuzatofenuno.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4744/3865/files/39128808676.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2805/4169/files/mizuxazarezulu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2045/7883/files/small_engine_repair_manual_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0658/3203/files/sezige.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6013/3030/files/sonuwof.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_off00007745.bin
2dacb15211ac028acd87e7bed20eebda6d7e1c0f38382ffa27e89062f0840cba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7745 5056 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000886e.bin
88efcc4c97ff249cbeab5dcdf95787dbe7fe2dd622511c15864ab84e4bcd075b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x886E 12944 bytes