Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e5c945f97a3752f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-07-31 05:49:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2b9eec3b83a3fa8727bf7f7fff4423dd SHA-1: 83fbebe0cf401d47f548f358700f5298bde27436 SHA-256: 8e5c945f97a3752f184cd116159dc1c47aa7eb939eb2cd66405046735a354cbc
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a 'PDF SEO Link Farm'. The primary malicious URL identified is 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=pathfinder+pawns+bestiary+box+4+pdf', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body appears to be largely obfuscated or corrupted, preventing a clear understanding of its direct lure, but the extensive link farm points towards a distribution mechanism for malicious 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.cc/pify?keyword=pathfinder+pawns+bestiary+box+4+pdf
    • http://files.brenleemcknight.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814611/nepifa-tasevobabosuvos.pdf
    • http://files.nicolewessel.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710569/2747862.pdf
    • http://files.a-pathwaytopeace.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398141/lafevokon.pdf
    • http://files.scrta.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813696/4892872.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3569/7063/files/dagarunabinewinurix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7301/1866/files/50706339067.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6026/5117/files/zuguluwekeloxib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2327/7973/files/80957334895.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0675/4970/files/44982664269.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9958/6714/files/73184862012.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/44411244229.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8780/7129/files/70816439955.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8363/5619/files/80141697911.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8136/6693/files/67604502726.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6217/3604/files/nosulunedifikozewix.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_off000076c1.bin
7ea3f4590405aca982046d2aa0e019aaff8385abbb4c5e5cbe0850ca08c70bb3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76C1 5376 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008909.bin
4afbc4059cb4a001aac09757ce1301b2607fa8eab39454f746a31aee421df176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8909 10344 bytes