Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fbaa71082383286…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.7 KB Created: 2020-08-22 09:04:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f55917dd725aae9c8353c59dfbd9d4eb SHA-1: af280fc9ecb9f62f8be9087c8f195178f5c1f1be SHA-256: 7fbaa71082383286805509027aacffa93c3f57ec0d9a4f5f18ae44197ec7982e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains text related to 'algebra equations worksheets year 8' and the malicious URL, indicating a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=algebra+equations+worksheets+year+8
    • http://files.robertlpalmer.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776273/sorifugopenolux_jupaxedena.pdf
    • http://files.jennderango.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164273/gozefesuranor-nokonulo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6961/2966/files/kefuraxewejefi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3337/9487/files/15155250515.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1769/9477/files/fosaxunulilojulatezizukoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/poxusulijupidokubeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9980/8149/files/wikepaju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6255/0940/files/nuzigopowiwoviz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3075/4966/files/tezolezubofofuzax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4119/3110/files/24675579995.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2665/3090/files/73029717765.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7343/7845/files/35247054681.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_off0000582d.bin
06792c10dfb14ee32adc9ed1aba36e61f4150129ae1ddf889ea9d60075203abd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x582D 5656 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b76.bin
918abfb90fae0cd5468dc30a026e9c8982d058ff1c694cbe74d140e29dc381d1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B76 10176 bytes