Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4828af446cf044cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-01 13:20:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 145e88d3edf6cc69648b6231082c20c9 SHA-1: f87bcd2b7ba19c6cceb62c1893d5737265795e6e SHA-256: 4828af446cf044cda5df89a78c5d3f49208c0c77d58a3eed41f0322c3c6c7ca5
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 pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to known malicious infrastructure at 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the string 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=chipotle+training+manual', suggesting a lure to a fake training manual. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that this is a phishing or redirection attempt.

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=chipotle+training+manual
    • http://files.halfmoonantiques.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383483/jufoboxipewo_diniduborogi_vowamokinujuj.pdf
    • http://files.juliawwhite.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682471/judubo.pdf
    • http://files.beautifulrooms.london/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454984/c146471.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7841/0655/files/73557358167.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7868/8674/files/76029062484.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9831/6707/files/27906196238.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2961/1171/files/91092002740.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2917/6232/files/perarotoxejabifabexaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9720/1567/files/wovetunekepekuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3364/7509/files/1141107677.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5811/0363/files/79667972290.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6578/6006/files/jalaxixejapepulatemaga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3798/0834/files/tamasozowajiririmurijuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1782/2620/files/baxawalubufizaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3137/9619/files/seleditox.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_off000064f3.bin
8dae6ab3f2e7e60edf073788bb5b9ce990073d6625e3e9df329eb61a696221d1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64F3 4960 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075a4.bin
7a5082aad9fed51a4d2b6dd4597e777d5102b236cbc617a2e42af2075bba0b3a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75A4 10040 bytes