Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b1ff2e24c33ef84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.5 KB Created: 2020-08-25 10:24:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 36ca3e196b1c1612358079371dd80041 SHA-1: 7aebfe2b527bfc4d819a6d07e177ba138bb2f380 SHA-256: 4b1ff2e24c33ef8463d9a663505fda477f058b1620358a871332cdfe7afc6dcc
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 of which point to external PDFs hosted on Shopify and other domains. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to a 'stars galaxies and the universe worksheet', which is likely a pretext for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=stars+galaxies+and+the+universe+worksheet
    • http://files.mrainc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740251/govom.pdf
    • http://files.jacksonmanncc.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776743/xowibafunobo_lerolewesogew_kitasa.pdf
    • http://files.artinnitaly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682790/413358c552.pdf
    • http://files.embracingliterature.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437085/wesosexewub-jageru-gapawilidegu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8545/4757/files/nujegevutudutemodiki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1462/6202/files/95047766692.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7686/8510/files/jajipupodakalemeduzele.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5609/4615/files/hydrology_and_floodplain_analysis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2623/6071/files/48762226050.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/0443/3308/files/vpn_express_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3404/9703/files/21632435010.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9730/8840/files/36657768559.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0513/2456/files/becks_prime_menu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4244/7265/files/98554145875.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_off00004fa0.bin
4f07bf3a5d3483ae243fbf7461639bd479e751696c95e8d7ac707ca3869669e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4FA0 5472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000623f.bin
e1579ce9bac47aff9c5581706544b7da37ca3aca51b31fbc003e63f39219c58e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x623F 10216 bytes