Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86084f189dbb8774…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-08-06 21:29:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0999a951b8d8b0c1571d220a5d97f80f SHA-1: dab84bcdf7d1f17364e53963000dcb724abb8188 SHA-256: 86084f189dbb8774f31b4e82cb6806bbd1079bee3c8b51072671327a27975824
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector (ttraff.cc). The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'cell cycle diagram pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The presence of many Shopify links suggests an attempt to blend in with benign content, a common tactic in SEO-based spam campaigns.

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=cell+cycle+diagram+pdf
    • http://files.oraclefitness.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814121/dabuniwusexufe_dulatuvilawes_kadugitodelekum_muvufuzade.pdf
    • http://files.smiths2argentina.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695560/mugakebebip-rivupi-zirukulejozepe-xakenagenijux.pdf
    • http://files.myfoodresearch.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738719/fa4ddd56e.pdf
    • http://files.royalanimalhealthuniversity.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437859/0d9a4a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2638/9912/files/articles_rules_and_examples.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3885/0719/files/repeating_pistol_bloodborne.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3580/4319/files/85356940779.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3525/4170/files/tolupada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6766/9654/files/zikaxopolut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/jenodilibaxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3103/5032/files/31138087529.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5071/1705/files/arabic_letters_and_pronunciation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8749/5322/files/lovudenesijo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0281/3849/files/74367503681.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_off00005d90.bin
cb43ea197ece8d855154a7acbda3eddc3bf196609b83576108924537420cb92b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D90 5304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f8e.bin
7fe969ff7b2ec1de1639cfe1995b17cb2b436003c4cb6ed1ec0095e51791e050
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F8E 9916 bytes