Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d6baf3194d06a52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.2 KB Created: 2020-08-27 18:08:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 24f8fdc2d0b35d000e521a127a0efa6a SHA-1: f22fd474158fbefb56373f1105f16e00f5687d12 SHA-256: 4d6baf3194d06a527db02e65fcaf54b99bff94bf31ba591eaf666404699426a1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to domains associated with link farms and redirectors, such as 'ttraff.cc'. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same suspicious URL found in the heuristics, suggesting a lure to download a PDF that likely contains further malicious content or redirects to a malicious site.

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=complete+idiot%2527s+guide+to+chess+pdf
    • http://fivebizo.pdvintage.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710621/ad568.pdf
    • http://files.warwickchinese.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071067/piwifevo_jinuke_busilapubamuma.pdf
    • http://files.thistlewellington.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164479/3696480.pdf
    • http://tenar.forestgroveelementary.ca/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681670/6857649.pdf
    • http://zofom.pft-alexander.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969336/2540719.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5737/3589/files/dunetapiri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5511/1589/files/suvigofu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5850/3590/files/39352037540.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1828/0357/files/93586293676.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6827/6384/files/50043295898.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0701/5069/files/44578590757.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1811/5480/files/hearts_of_iron_3_beginner_s_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1230/9671/files/calculus_and_analytic_geometry_george_thomas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/32296476761.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/41820046786.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_off000050ba.bin
f2c44cf5637535d5853ca44015b082b0c549af482821d407800b5c389b39a4dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50BA 5200 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000625f.bin
947cfd1a2685c16ba60b25ba0c5d3f83e2ae4cfac423b7d7ee796989578247c4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x625F 9860 bytes