Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d276ffd5a2643a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.4 KB Created: 2020-07-30 11:49:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e15ca5ff4c63a717c85a441e50d377a1 SHA-1: 4af32f45ebd98478f176d375f10f47c3869d83b6 SHA-256: 8d276ffd5a2643a83c152b2ae4da10858ae70397b94f5511fac934757196b0d7
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content, suggesting it's not a typical document but rather a container for malicious 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=battlerager+5e+pdf
    • http://files.sorgsportandwellness.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383760/nijotilesa.pdf
    • http://files.patwrightlab.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131413718/7378070.pdf
    • http://files.yoga-soleil.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303353/127f1149363564.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8462/7616/files/jusixujusijoguvosiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9437/6599/files/78389547481.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9474/6023/files/nufukejume.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1135/8372/files/tarigimevaxojalikowo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wotedosepano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7079/1573/files/43495707618.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9812/0096/files/38386720742.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/bivijagepa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7181/3285/files/17343930193.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1787/1255/files/68924998192.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2499/7800/files/jugerukafiboben.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8851/9080/files/16941584088.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0391/2098/files/78516358023.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_off000078bd.bin
f868a38d8cee13d7b06310dd50cf643b9d480d7913ffab7df39fbe1e134b9b00
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78BD 4728 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000088e7.bin
0dab14c289e244f6e0494e7417523a25c34ad877f7044fc00b876df5719820ff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88E7 10364 bytes