Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ec50e374087ecd4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.0 KB Created: 2020-08-04 01:49:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3525165a3302b1a5f1dbcac0e096844e SHA-1: f4ac134fd2ba7dfe2be09971c15b09799066c375 SHA-256: 7ec50e374087ecd496113d1c03e75d42cb76a58b159f5e1585a697e1e3b7201a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous external PDFs, with one primary link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=possessive+adjectives+games+pdf', suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The ML classifier also 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.com/pify?keyword=possessive+adjectives+games+pdf
    • http://files.asws.info/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871484/pinosozemofutixel.pdf
    • http://files.madhuritherapeutics.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873979/60a5d.pdf
    • http://fogeke.vividpac.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302963/2966558.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6512/1695/files/marathi_calendar_june_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7963/1012/files/80021119640.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/11067845032.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9535/7595/files/nuwaxuzisinejo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2952/7709/files/manual_wheatgrass_juicer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9724/2280/files/74140017961.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7241/4106/files/budatinejige.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5488/1185/files/supercapacitors_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5855/1189/files/66659316405.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2892/9960/files/dibipigitofu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1994/3579/files/hc-_sr04_datasheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0699/9203/files/list_of_all_sports_cups_and_trophies.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_off00007d09.bin
d5821475259431d62af8d1bdc1c01db9b1b1f2577b757bb5f38bee99cfcb9494
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D09 5484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008fba.bin
054842f443879cd15eeb39ca326a9597478cc3a1053218b92ccc49c2cc1ce4cb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FBA 13724 bytes