Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b1e0a9742be8812…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-15 03:45:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 38a883d88e9bd6f11b903ead1f0bd7aa SHA-1: d25e99776dc5da6f3d4b9f25ce1d37c059ea7d74 SHA-256: 8b1e0a9742be881253836b3feca9ef5d84345f24e23bd476f03e16b5b8b6d24a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a redirector link to 'ttraff.com'. This suggests the document is designed to lure users to a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector is sufficient evidence of malicious intent.

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=chrome+wont++file+extension
    • http://files.getfitwithida.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738871/779580.pdf
    • http://befate.shekkacomputers.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411688/2278072.pdf
    • http://files.pvclc.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712661/komibatibagaguwik.pdf
    • http://damiweke.creativecircles.shop/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740585/7c34698cbf88.pdf
    • http://files.drage2ndchanceranch.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303068/fuzezevuj_wizopoxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6105/1546/files/36135664654.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4089/0262/files/nadudusibaveboverena.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5249/8070/files/guxibekutelaranojupajew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1031/6694/files/31544595014.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7573/1607/files/73974624239.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7691/0242/files/narrative_analysis_steps.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9064/1045/files/gaziwifuzatorivu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8030/3270/files/45462115902.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0515/7282/files/51763409496.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5177/7185/files/52894144008.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_off000067b5.bin
3f2a2411e7483f0bb294ad3db0c65b121c5f3f46dcb4d8210fd1076a56c6bd44
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67B5 4860 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007827.bin
a36eee06fef6ce219692c4ec918276ac99413e4fd1e3666e4031624f9289d620
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7827 1800 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000080b4.bin
7b24cb276ae1c02f28d68e5562d4fe8056fa3c9a28b58738504c496a8558fe6c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80B4 10304 bytes