Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82a38dfbed3daa7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 11:13:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fb6cf925625a010ea7132e88d2c76dd7 SHA-1: b50fe72940996aa309a690a16ee1139fc6f5b8cd SHA-256: 82a38dfbed3daa7d9daaad69549220198c1fd3fe4afe9f1284ccdf631ed2b929
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to domains associated with link farms and redirectors, including a critical finding of a link to a known malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=noun+adjective+and+adverb+phrases+pdf, which is likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other suspicious links.

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=noun+adjective+and+adverb+phrases+pdf
    • http://netide.5islandsfarm.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636725/wilin-xavogo-gorikafote.pdf
    • http://faxiwiw.aztardis.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813765/1779411.pdf
    • http://files.premiumlimousines.ch/uploads/1/3/1/8/131855992/gexuf_ximotikezig_zuxegevepumos_basipa.pdf
    • http://files.stjoachimorderusa.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739126/radis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2588/2518/files/mcpe_too_many_items_mod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/5589/3928/files/short_biography_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7315/8806/files/gapufezujakuvolegekira.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7773/0455/files/81411741714.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lurexemip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0654/7352/files/plague_inc_premium_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2687/files/stardew_valley_sound_effects.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/2352/8099/files/pdf_astronomy_today.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9375/2997/files/que_es_el_apriorismo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8832/1435/files/sogitelerojajimos.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_off00006ef3.bin
097fcd3f2facf111286436aaa60ae49b587dfe6217334ff9efb66f8c767412ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EF3 5456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008184.bin
5319c3e54a8b12e48cd526fa087811020b3bc2ff319b1869c11114fe65cea741
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8184 10356 bytes