Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48faa0fbacf65020…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.0 KB Created: 2020-08-21 12:48:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d662ea4f46715f8b2fcfb0ad3c70d63a SHA-1: d582d32de969dcc2b5abc28cd62aaa6141595da1 SHA-256: 48faa0fbacf65020ab08ad4e401e87e1a312557b408573fa82c4b2ac16c9ee82
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=letter+m+worksheet'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, likely for SEO manipulation to increase visibility. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and other PDF links, reinforcing the lure.

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=letter+m+worksheet
    • http://wupexevem.neefbuckmusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814674/kosudusof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8774/1607/files/pijilukojin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3432/8738/files/somezumekifamebezupijif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0873/6928/files/63277430064.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8531/5744/files/14625938543.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3894/6981/files/33080625628.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0069/1868/files/wukaloseduv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4747/7667/files/xasemiseliruvilemib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tobilefoseparavako.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xuxovozukirofavekejob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7848/3096/files/31688737468.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4922/2298/files/flightradar24_gold_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3574/4673/files/23601325308.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0233/9232/files/62510770189.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_off00005cdd.bin
1e559d6972bb5e44523dd43570aed85c8b657cba39385ebbd698a013d8f2241d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CDD 4780 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d11.bin
1b49e2e4d7067d4f391103aeb3473269b78fbc1527a0ced99ad635649daadb5e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D11 9996 bytes