Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78a73311ef15ec05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.5 KB Created: 2020-08-17 10:25:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c7c626ae1c116b52f319ee0f40465c67 SHA-1: 18df9b395a84624a6b9188267195dff8e3c69bfa SHA-256: 78a73311ef15ec055a1f62a043458770a3b41fb334dbb91c6aec8d54778464e0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a PDF link farm. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=caskey+black+sheep+4++zip', is identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains garbled text but includes the malicious redirector URL, suggesting a lure or redirection mechanism.

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=caskey+black+sheep+4++zip
    • http://files.hocobicyclerentals.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438641/pefibudofirer_vexevifer_zegeledupep_jubet.pdf
    • http://maluput.angelaguidolinauthor.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384171/giwanafafapajad.pdf
    • http://files.fidostudio.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695582/7dac3f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7298/6015/files/fenavewuzofalemudelelap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5815/1072/files/completing_the_square_tes_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/3671/7735/files/cassia_tora.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9928/3861/files/28413678140.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4095/5803/files/22645684493.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9546/1783/files/zajejozudifugisowo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3882/5887/files/79834077806.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5481/6667/files/discord_delete_dm_messages.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7840/2723/files/sozilez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1410/2951/files/boiler_water_treatment_basics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1880/3607/files/pobulevuwitejuvodezol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7492/9308/files/5035486504.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6280/2070/files/4704061189.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_off000048fc.bin
6db8e3a7faf77b5828058fea75206049eb345414ff2f42f93c4c10ced5bed065
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x48FC 5276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005af5.bin
217cc61064dcbb3d24dd30251a13037575ce17aec393b79ef6fe112e6eac3a93
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AF5 10012 bytes