Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fbe397fa358c7ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-19 03:44:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 39481ea402c2f0963282fe3e04255fbc SHA-1: 741ba867438bb69d18ebcb0a5404d1da9ee09838 SHA-256: 4fbe397fa358c7adf69590222dee644d407b4bb00c6f95cc7f78365d2df044b5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious URL is 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=early+civilizations+of+africa+worksheet', which likely serves as a lure to a malicious payload.

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=early+civilizations+of+africa+worksheet
    • http://tefof.buttercupbakerymb.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406202/rosivome_ginekabadasevog.pdf
    • http://files.bornleaderconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710704/ba16961.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2192/4514/files/candy_camera_apk_for_android_2._3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0467/4727/files/poxesuveginuteva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8970/6664/files/keirsey_temperament_sorter_questions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4948/2400/files/26670006463.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8942/0695/files/75715021376.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5863/3631/files/340172381.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8801/0659/files/25678248787.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2777/1040/files/tunurifekikiloxuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9906/8318/files/bubere.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0058/5636/files/68381566004.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1509/2894/files/kawasaki_loader_craigslist.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_off000060a1.bin
f41cc27634524932f8f9c0843c75ca6cfefc28cd73c5da1481ac70cc42a437bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60A1 5296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072c3.bin
1f234a91b3451a1ebff1790de9f252829742abd3e88f18f9af6f703d48b695c4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72C3 10136 bytes