Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 594d7122ffd5c7e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-08-06 05:01:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f26173af1811f75ba6360a5adac58d51 SHA-1: ab5972e97219eab9c0bc308d6b80d9526fbb7b6a SHA-256: 594d7122ffd5c7e352a7b394a9042292edbfbed66d2613f8a9972051c64a21fe
152 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.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but some to unknown or potentially malicious hosts. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=buckling+of+columns+solved+examples+pdf', reinforcing the malicious redirector finding. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=buckling+of+columns+solved+examples+pdf
    • http://vunenuse.hollyreynoldsart.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071157/difopivububak.pdf
    • http://files.ezkennel.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164039/4571276.pdf
    • http://files.lwvchampaigncounty.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302768/5760672.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8837/0077/files/55588605760.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0944/1953/files/leluvub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3497/6149/files/riwadefafof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3431/1845/files/55346641364.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0637/6611/files/evgeni_malkin_contract.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5448/1056/files/nukewesitedavibolagajud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3943/9510/files/xapuraxomi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8205/5842/files/lilepopedino.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7101/2006/files/bohemian_rhapsody_guitar_solo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6769/4501/files/83751297579.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7266/8319/files/fadupakatawinebulo.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_off00006c71.bin
73aa1f63a756612d90b372ae23c62602851222dea026aca2f4a67bdf29022b96
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C71 5620 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f9c.bin
5d4aa507cecb229209421b097878355d615b2934219a4d79bda5919043b8160a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F9C 10084 bytes