Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89de7119eeb73350…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-19 20:01:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2011fbfc5346a15005f93c5836c600ce SHA-1: 69bd296643d879db7e1e2f48f9bc0a62c040e4b9 SHA-256: 89de7119eeb73350f7584151dd5dbfd4d9fc9e20bf19157995d09ce7e12fb32c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=worksheets+colours+esl+students'. The document body also contains a link to 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8690/9341/files/interview_questions_on_java_download.pdf', which is part of a link farm. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the conclusion that this PDF is designed to redirect users to harmful content.

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=worksheets+colours+esl+students
    • http://files.rkspeech.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438249/9075954.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8690/9341/files/interview_questions_on_java_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6766/9654/files/73571024668.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9072/2469/files/vocabulary_exercises_high_school.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3314/8062/files/midepibaxasotizagobebalam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4265/1816/files/between_the_buried_and_me_tab_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7252/0353/files/refizadego.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8538/0246/files/malaysia_chinese_wedding_invitation_card_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4347/1008/files/zofesodemob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3786/7687/files/chac_mool_libro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3668/0098/files/significado_de_adulacin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8717/5588/files/28130105084.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006588.bin
d04a30cc0a351666d7cf65e9ecfc5a3113cc49370f8b06e4bc693ef1402925f9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6588 4728 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000759f.bin
24ed33bcf705959e1f6a8fbc62b2e5bb48e5e5d4a0eb777efa63582771380527
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x759F 10060 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000981d.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x981D 4324 bytes