Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fdd624056aafd75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-25 19:15:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1b78ec0e7dcfdf120eb980a97b8828de SHA-1: 6e1bc5bc8173400a022897bc4c765cf786d10bfa SHA-256: 4fdd624056aafd751aed8c6081a91992b952c749b7ad72ff7f1b00be82e1f5c7
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.link/pify?keyword=ejercicios+funciones+del+lenguaje+2+eso+resueltos', which is also listed as a malicious redirector. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to distribute malicious content.

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.link/pify?keyword=ejercicios+funciones+del+lenguaje+2+eso+resueltos
    • http://vemori.edaumarchitect.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/7127418.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0579/5752/files/1189531391.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8125/2512/files/aarti_sangrah_book_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8060/6111/files/advertising_management_process.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0873/6927/files/farototuzu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6259/9583/files/72967339714.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0425/4615/files/lesotho_budget_speech_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8730/5629/files/56564179679.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0046/9403/files/wofuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3152/6561/files/52755341796.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/6376/7203/files/minecraft_skin_editor_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4451/1645/files/56365441713.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_off00006165.bin
77de2303a800ad5fc89667ded25532bf99b21d833db67f18cf84608146674161
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6165 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000073ad.bin
5c059f7712e5c2ad0fbb11c378c44d57530b9fa3b93ccf30e74cf5c4a79f1875
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73AD 11516 bytes