Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 521625a55d7c6b56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.6 KB Created: 2020-09-10 20:15:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e9126397d3b43af379dfdd538c4316cd SHA-1: 115765a2b96283bf4953a63388b56b48f1f31ec2 SHA-256: 521625a55d7c6b56002528ae3a4e4d10b99f0a8585ec0997ae4992e0ebe2d402
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.link'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL and a reference to 'clergyman's salary crossword answer', suggesting a lure. The presence of a PDF link farm heuristic further indicates malicious intent to distribute links. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=clergyman%2527+s+salary+crossword+answer
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3987/3429/files/best_way_to_apply_thermal_paste.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2308/1378/files/asnt_ndt_level_3_study_guides.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1817/4120/files/atomic_theory_activity.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4096/3751/files/airtel_money_rates.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4797/5062/files/creative_resume_templates_with_photo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9975/8497/files/woviwexedupelepoxosurodem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2531/6514/files/metro_map_noida.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1227/5870/files/personal_financial_statement_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3858/8573/files/house_design_architecture.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e7e4a0_ae58417c0a9a4ec0b0894b2bb771fc46.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/76156b_6b8a2b803179423ea511e98e8987cec7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9474/6023/files/luwadazorujafexujoruk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6759/6184/files/bawafazaka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6693/0840/files/valenibonesegometiluvozig.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_off0000454f.bin
0e7a0b908f9a409e61778b7e31fa7955d52fe93b7aff11460722883653c2b66a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x454F 5392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000057a4.bin
5a458e632afe736a2e0a93ec24ce273dd2ffae2f7c3009fb2ff4c7faaaea865f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57A4 8788 bytes