Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59b5317e5fe5793e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.3 KB Created: 2020-08-13 18:10:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d736500fbbcb0622b801ef017ed6e3b2 SHA-1: e56cee2eba659c82cd82880fa5372888ba4d9838 SHA-256: 59b5317e5fe5793ed03c67f042cc2344bdbea064ff0afe70b9d4d4069ba34c5d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL. This indicates the primary purpose is to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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/wb?keyword=grade%2010%20english%20module%20pdf
    • http://files.millercounselingserv.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813111/kutajoran_jegewo_kinatazesomene_mamutaza.pdf
    • http://files.granitestaterunningcamp.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607544/8210273.pdf
    • http://files.cnsbeauty.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379680/9125998.pdf
    • http://sivim.leapcreativeservices.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379132/3900394.pdf
    • http://files.bizitbridge.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776401/819137737c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0889/1807/files/81361426840.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3728/4762/files/99025919191.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7361/7568/files/centrales_hidroelectricas_zoppetti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6980/8548/files/asme_boiler_pressure_vessel_code_section_viii.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2305/6545/files/division_bacillariophyta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7187/1912/files/79783724084.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6116/5723/files/29695684560.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0414/7350/files/80247488340.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7502/7619/files/app_development_software.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mobisibat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8742/9781/files/biblical_baby_names_with_meaning.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_off00019209.bin
1c4a14bb64f2051929faee32107303028e24295fc99301ffefcfc32be24952de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19209 5680 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001a53a.bin
bb7ae8d9567ee0ddc489a4167af4666e179914d2734943281c695039ce2b401e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A53A 12104 bytes