Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55a3ed3947c87e41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.8 KB Created: 2020-08-08 05:13:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 27aae67af8fd1f2333b1e37faa00c7f1 SHA-1: d81e9ce01190124254dfdb89d30b85e332cb7a56 SHA-256: 55a3ed3947c87e410c8b90687eb775300fc66cdd4ee19528bc958bda3b74491b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to a known malicious redirector, specifically 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=cable+stayed+bridge+construction+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate malicious destination. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=cable+stayed+bridge+construction+pdf
    • http://nimuduzot.moot.nilsinternational.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856462/8e98e3f28a47.pdf
    • http://files.hannahsealy.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070476/6191173.pdf
    • http://files.jasminkwan.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453248/kubomerebamel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/18983443830.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5833/0786/files/95293758695.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9919/2472/files/juzelowotawijejuparikim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3680/3233/files/rurigajimefut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kiragin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4168/5665/files/tiparerurimip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8493/8402/files/rowenil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1868/9432/files/keyboard_key_codes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9906/2421/files/xigafawupugidifafomo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9848/9503/files/46544296622.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2492/5340/files/kepunivuguganabeb.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_off00009c8d.bin
ffb3320d6b03f7adecf7e5c25bcd416f1dfc8eb1ef21dfbd24970dedff5df26c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C8D 5472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000af35.bin
b8ebf0dc63cceef67a3cdf52f1d0400ad43ffd6698db57fc488dd625e8046d3c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF35 10208 bytes