Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b7518103a446dcf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-08-06 21:16:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f8e982597eb178ef66a7f5fdbe9a580e SHA-1: 3da3aba4163e24ef457b9140d791a8814c1f5752 SHA-256: 4b7518103a446dcff56c5093cbbd4858d67c6bce77d16383c69d3bd23e601ab5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body also contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to attract victims. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious redirector attack pattern.

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=livro+after+5+pdf+online
    • http://files.skiserendipity.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407977/jabim.pdf
    • http://setelekog.simonbrightsalon.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776791/cf7d0f69e024f3.pdf
    • http://files.littleannadesigns.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740463/8997145.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1431/4405/files/28900196277.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0610/7552/files/72879173946.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0809/7445/files/papapojibipawel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0998/2107/files/rikikorezugixixixudosesor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5342/4540/files/maraketovuwozumolede.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9090/3193/files/80483628045.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4538/8442/files/9761135775.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1612/6625/files/59192186924.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vinupagudesezubinu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0812/2270/files/39557134920.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_off00005fff.bin
b8737eba9734b218090ad841f641e08b66e6333c9b5a1de87ff4c7a6bdd9ee37
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FFF 4984 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007114.bin
35952121ef0ed9300a3bbc4ca005c7da664f0a1517b8c0c722dee63a0e56834a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7114 10156 bytes