Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 550a5e5aead4a1a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2020-08-08 22:08:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 20a66167484877dfd0915fd3c25b211e SHA-1: b2be5c99e8c541f30a63e2aaf957a191b96f6696 SHA-256: 550a5e5aead4a1a7f333c64b3b957872146a66855ff77cba318248df64d58d4b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a direct link to a redirector, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=righteousness+by+faith+sda+pdf, which is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

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=righteousness+by+faith+sda+pdf
    • http://files.marencoartrestoration.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680784/d74d8380c0c8a70.pdf
    • http://files.townsonsmithdesign.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814343/bevupafef.pdf
    • http://files.leonardoarriola.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438460/f4cba07d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0393/5911/files/wudumoxoviwu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0301/0459/files/accounting_and_bookkeeping_for_dummies.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4848/4507/files/dofifesemigu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7824/5781/files/wagawubakejepeto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8260/4963/files/24291429360.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8882/2950/files/niccolo_machiavelli_the_prince_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2433/4498/files/lujeru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0304/3230/files/niwapa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3302/4929/files/97832891701.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_off0000da88.bin
9842fc06cc4d5a50f97e932f0513929a888a2d98f7d6dd516e6d9993bae3ef96
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA88 5424 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed09.bin
7acb6a636f5c73c02f76b8a9d20a97617dba80fb78fe2fe8bcd69dee2f4efa24
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED09 9992 bytes