Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76a4911ab2c2b466…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2020-08-01 23:42:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0fc874bfeb1c4609b78b6db82281d62f SHA-1: 987e0273eb69290ce2d2f380939e1aabeb68a4d0 SHA-256: 76a4911ab2c2b466b047a42e26319dd83f77f408a0e3f5645ce360569d0f3d53
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many hosted on Shopify, designed to create a link farm. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=fallout+4+spring', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a lure to malicious content. The ML classifier 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.cc/pify?keyword=fallout+4+spring
    • http://files.klacscotland.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163512/lofevit.pdf
    • http://files.asportscamps.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681713/28dab3fb2b4339.pdf
    • http://files.foundationschristianschool.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969525/kefeme.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8774/9525/files/dirizosigek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2650/4086/files/kizusedodulutoxazo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0942/6079/files/45190797921.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6906/3836/files/dulexaxujisuwosesawip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4468/4454/files/42301097939.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4578/1665/files/minecraft_resource_packs_not_showing_up.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0766/2490/files/bewifakivoguduxil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8397/2256/files/worozixitafudukasorafije.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7978/5886/files/xoxizavovosajema.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0357/6481/files/wozetufigikomimofe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3831/9527/files/bapodi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9068/2783/files/lexiketumos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9920/8346/files/99210827557.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5086/8646/files/vigaxamazegivoxeb.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_off0000d1ca.bin
4af6170b635bf2c4377f94f0e04d05b955e6d9e2bd80a0c1e7362b33a6af8fbf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1CA 5028 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2ff.bin
6a94c716f37ce53838e4c52da42d52a8b356b0f79c2a6e1f4fbdd8667ca8bb27
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2FF 10556 bytes