Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ad8363716178a44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 22:27:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 217a8730d6b8b0908de2265a9ebada22 SHA-1: d64fd59bccc589b615aea78d4cd3187ed9b629d1 SHA-256: 4ad8363716178a446e2a781c0fd6c30a211bf56c369ac9e7cde2e0f83064e11d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. The link directs to 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=daily+porn+pics', suggesting a lure for potentially malicious content. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link to a known malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious URL is the primary indicator of compromise.

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/wix?keyword=daily+porn+pics
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4738/6264/files/patobezotebatiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2165/5464/files/calaveritas_literarias_ejemplos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8655/1971/files/character_design_sheet_bird.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7857/2450/files/zorivupok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6221/3273/files/amazing_grace_piano_sheet_music_for_beginners_with_letters.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2499/7800/files/11149265957.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8353/8331/files/65115153331.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2960/2205/files/66310214882.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8375/9765/files/fakimamejaturivepufime.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7ea740ec6fee41138c0288dc9855f91c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d01287_717bb9edcfb44da485fdff3138805d80.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ca6fec6fff4a4f048527095210d21361.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3cb679_406e011907474cbc8aa794386bbe02b0.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_off000050d3.bin
deb5104269589398edd93a19eb7f950f3309116ba940fd1c5856769b9c97e265
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50D3 5028 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000061fd.bin
03b1409bbf68483b1659d3743ad2b817a16d117c16ca6a6d0c341d56479b96d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61FD 10572 bytes