Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cc2af4e0c382c7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-18 13:20:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 07d28013d5cfd150c4915f8cd8bc27c5 SHA-1: 0ff38f17ffbed09d6c065965ea24f527121dbe13 SHA-256: 8cc2af4e0c382c7cb414c46b465d361a045432bca0194a3515c55adbb97d0d04
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, disguised as a download for 'Calculix for windows'. The document also features a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is characteristic of SEO link farm abuse. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a malicious link.

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=calculix+for+windows
    • http://files.prodenconstruction.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606687/b8663f92cd9.pdf
    • http://files.designsbyalexander.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071067/zibopejawevom.pdf
    • http://files.secretspartanburg.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813458/b9b13.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1403/7409/files/mezirogepojixurasoxamodap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2433/4498/files/79020875499.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8362/7686/files/47341083401.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1088/9624/files/56088980880.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6083/0116/files/sefinug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1881/1552/files/anova_and_manova.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0792/5654/files/23933249622.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9172/6240/files/fake_verizon_bill.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5461/1102/files/forek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0921/1559/files/69991949083.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1328/1691/files/epic_jump_map.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_off0000622e.bin
cb5cef76dc5ddd59cd872a1f6bdc48b9c9bff44bdff1597e1e7056b5f5364673
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x622E 5080 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007397.bin
9ee592cacf8e98e739cb84daf08ee5cdf509e560f2880ccc1515288d5c311b0f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7397 10580 bytes