Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b2fe9f3ef642d57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-08 01:13:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e4eebf21e2025a1a602d7c428b53b072 SHA-1: 8fad6584cf60196fefbfc50e2e55c0024538df0b SHA-256: 7b2fe9f3ef642d5745a4d0fac3faa8a3a67e3e0e3e16b5f516bd83608bc73dff
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=causes+of+anxiety+disorders+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Causes of anxiety disorders pdf' and the authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, further indicates a link farm strategy to distribute malicious content.

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=causes+of+anxiety+disorders+pdf
    • http://files.noartassoc.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814043/kusijakes.pdf
    • http://bulak.ghostsusa.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775735/tiziludifapof_jidor_suxegoja_wisurafabaxajeg.pdf
    • http://duloma.proteus-mrighifu.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696212/7096747.pdf
    • http://files.kuya-wayne.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873787/rekawifomalaruv.pdf
    • http://satiso.avikigames.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438641/luvagivupuxesubam.pdf
    • http://duloma.proteus-mrigh
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0688/5027/files/davipufofis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1615/9381/files/woliperuzege.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0722/1658/files/vitofofewi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9856/1957/files/antenna_and_wave_propagation_book_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6341/9815/files/wuvigowininepinudasutifo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8557/5832/files/estudio_descriptivo_sampieri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2906/1014/files/kojaselimevadupet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9073/9361/files/us_army_survival_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/16216600544.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_off00006da3.bin
858a68ac637cbdd578139916d29e7851d1fe1dcc565457ffbfd034fc14dd6434
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DA3 5076 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f02.bin
4acc80f1a821ed46223d31bf526ee67a2dddf279ceb747ea79883d5fefc20429
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F02 9724 bytes