Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f58aa9a8be8251e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.2 KB Created: 2020-08-16 18:38:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f5eb436159c61e607e4c6725ef03188d SHA-1: 55ebb7c57ac23f9fb6ff18db7000215e50c803aa SHA-256: 7f58aa9a8be8251ef2044e2a88d51bb10f8aed751117442969fd5549c686d8ff
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a 'PDF link farm'. The primary malicious URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=gastrointestinal+system+pdf', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and a URL that appears to be part of the link farm, suggesting a delivery mechanism for further malicious content. 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.cc/pify?keyword=gastrointestinal+system+pdf
    • http://ganuzoveg.musicwithmskrauss.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696483/9835991.pdf
    • http://ribetiz.sarahavalia.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969723/zivig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kosetomamevisired.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/43561311815.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8549/6482/files/58209404301.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1302/0570/files/74354994675.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2068/1377/files/rezobofakegi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mosagewenusuwaguxizekud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3049/4882/files/80100562098.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8424/3351/files/88939993534.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7488/5534/files/74085649629.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2313/7957/files/magigas.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_off0000bdab.bin
a66492325f0e8971f0b021632f03428fb4e84fefb90979aeaee228e84dae36e2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDAB 5320 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfbc.bin
6f0c58318e1b9fbeef21441c46b5928efa4a381f3045f282eacae689c74b2c2c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFBC 10544 bytes