Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 827cdc88c54a2fd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-12 23:00:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dc7e99bac8d829a2d32b62c5542a79ae SHA-1: 0ad538e5d88f3efb96106fb92739983518feb066 SHA-256: 827cdc88c54a2fd876e1dde2bc47b2769de38f9da9a222f1ebb596e0750863ac
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 a link farm hosted on Shopify. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=class+12+biology+chapter+13+notes+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=class+12+biology+chapter+13+notes+pdf
    • http://turofovol.gethincoolbaugh.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398091/xijutura.pdf
    • http://files.shopasbonline.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070753/f33d90feacff09.pdf
    • http://files.alessclutteredlife.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874612/raseta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6934/8763/files/i_hate_u_give.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3631/9639/files/9340233073.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2032/8864/files/pejiworulukulodizofolo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6229/5716/files/attractor_factor_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0521/3847/files/42838877190.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0396/9689/files/99293978034.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4626/3201/files/artinian_ring.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0702/5060/files/71721544532.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1490/6275/files/34282726105.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1787/1265/files/blood_clotting_process.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5648/0935/files/lewixanukofi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2449/8333/files/bubetupotivojuxovegifile.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4582/1333/files/tilefawitisulaxuj.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_off000065a5.bin
fcb3be40611855666b110b295e70e24d418b4c6e275ec93d0f141d5819d9fe0b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65A5 5912 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000079be.bin
719433418d8c801f86a3cb797b560038ba06a24a4ffd38a1ba21f1a2896ca1a5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79BE 10432 bytes