Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54cfc6cb030c8d82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.4 KB Created: 2020-08-12 03:14:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3513591a0aef412588643d186b760952 SHA-1: 6679c2749b093c4a70e1afe922f87e3e2f9571fe SHA-256: 54cfc6cb030c8d82b2a21fdc37baf0afb8ab638a6ec37ef4947e64c4d7894c5e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a known malicious domain, ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'free kabbalah books pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure for users seeking such content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of multiple external links points to a link farm or redirection strategy.

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.com/pify?keyword=free+kabbalah+books+pdf
    • http://gilovogi.pdsummit.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/zusovagoxomumof.pdf
    • http://files.lindalgraham.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455283/7d86161771d526.pdf
    • http://files.wichitatoyrun.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070633/5355159.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7132/3808/files/92273650632.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3050/2806/files/petaliso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7680/5023/files/50272038716.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9219/5993/files/savekano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1868/9434/files/punedukemuniri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0441/8459/files/pipabaxaxat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2881/4746/files/xijibujidaki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9212/4572/files/mp4_player_windows.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9226/3583/files/relolukida.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5583/1445/files/marriage_d_amour_guitar_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wojilezufaguxulidumusad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2997/8526/files/kunutilovipuzipefedetu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9348/2902/files/15828520342.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5277/7118/files/98455351168.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9911/2099/files/xuvotag.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_off00009390.bin
5a625ad45e0c984181d10a878420efa67b615d49f12e54292d9f65b3560b4963
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9390 5288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a581.bin
4dbf40aa287bdb57f1f49830496349155a3ecc51f80dbefec8b4061b15277be1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA581 10324 bytes