Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f1d9a710b22195f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-08-02 10:56:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ec1b6fa9538847d659ed8a23e3f2bf97 SHA-1: 4c21889f97101e3ef7961497a83668b06b95f8dc SHA-256: 4f1d9a710b22195fd22c4ccf6a18630a5a0f45b4553d4a8c8f972f6d04e4f58f
154 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.cc, which is likely intended to lure the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and a reference to 'Episode of luffy: adventure on hand island', suggesting a social engineering pretext. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely for SEO poisoning or to obscure the final malicious destination.

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=episode+of+luffy%253A+adventure+on+hand+island
    • http://files.candbcreative.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438216/fogurolix_kuzege_ratidafejino.pdf
    • http://files.overlandcruisersmt.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408280/sibukikopaliz-nulaf-gawatonozinales.pdf
    • http://files.alba-a-new-dawn.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163859/sanodix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9567/0427/files/womevabomex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4347/1008/files/50890835923.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3981/7890/files/80601495475.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3012/6496/files/pitujawuvimovurosasu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4123/2795/files/15011278532.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4071/8496/files/7407458776.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4189/0208/files/ti-_36x_pro_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/99744184538.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1266/8066/files/28429408018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1876/9816/files/fotuvubijisitujuxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2897/1674/files/kowarubekeviwaku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8565/2375/files/raxuxodamogijuzidi.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_off000075cb.bin
f1b4ee0bf6a478430883bcf59685e5a44b47aeaaf92189f01759c1dc913e603e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75CB 5296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000087dd.bin
44e24b8e49e4eef38ccc15537ffaf2621a7c02b54792b19e0bde27984264bd9e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87DD 9908 bytes