Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ae94463de127aba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-21 00:53:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2ea6177f52eaffceee3d6bbf43b2c3ba SHA-1: c9227e488e77cca0967b8d304565d514dc4a4fdb SHA-256: 7ae94463de127aba335aaf9e1d5d79287569e873e8ef15b7d036fa6b262aa761
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Addends T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link farm and a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=annotating+a+book+worksheet, which is also listed as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to trick users into visiting this URL, likely leading to further malicious content or downloads.

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=annotating+a+book+worksheet
    • http://files.manhattanpawalkers.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637679/fadopilo.pdf
    • http://files.kristamaysart.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741334/divikajasetu-kileweruwet-rojedovux-rojodewoto.pdf
    • http://files.mikefosterstunts.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775368/sonodezi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5638/1597/files/golowewagarelesaguposatit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9952/9120/files/comment_regrouper_plusieurs_mac.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9027/1642/files/51740109454.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8384/1190/files/world_airline_rankings_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0755/6258/files/vujimepagulogejewox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8901/1612/files/fap_titans_promotions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3448/2587/files/17601_management_mcqs_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0620/3803/files/bryan_adams_heaven_piano_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4684/6107/files/93745446966.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0062/7363/files/types_of_nanosensors.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8964/9054/files/91145612015.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0397/7634/files/pokila.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_off00005ddc.bin
1480bf43142c8a34e5e9fe4a33b7d6f86421abc96e018a8b83eec7cdab5c65bd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DDC 5200 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f99.bin
6ade4123cf51efe7e74e6ae8de9e898bf3abcd06bbb61b0d01210105de435e82
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F99 10380 bytes