Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e659ca2ba069df1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.1 KB Created: 2020-08-14 05:48:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fa800ad137758223a625ffec506f95ff SHA-1: 2df24de4f11f77b60bd87889d5ba86d04b5301c9 SHA-256: 8e659ca2ba069df13c785d0a46e9ed36faf5a6f3b5d285b7979151215f326770
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, a common tactic for SEO link farms and redirector abuse. One such link, https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=valence%20electrons%20worksheet%20answers%20instructional%20fair, points to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and other Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a lure to external 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.com/wb?keyword=valence%20electrons%20worksheet%20answers%20instructional%20fair
    • http://files.legalandcommercial.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164358/86f8c4b15c2d.pdf
    • http://files.lightonplaza.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814769/3236107f1a.pdf
    • http://files.elitegolfcartrentals.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438759/796446.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1394/7041/files/statistical_methods_by_n._g._das_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1075/2663/files/zanemuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9056/6556/files/ofice_home_and_student_2007.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5795/4464/files/ankilostomiasis_adalah.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6997/2392/files/alexis_de_tocqueville_biography.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/9918/1476/files/bible_niv_download_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0268/2789/files/sajefe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0655/7341/files/wotas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6101/0842/files/4631319118.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3052/5590/files/fojifotaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8219/0749/files/file_police_report_online_san_francisco_ca.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_off0000ac39.bin
326b9b6454b2e537e344ba8247e87a408fbae8d70c67be3c4812cba0bd1ab87a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC39 5088 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000bd9a.bin
30088ddd19451f635e774985e51eeb11e3b1da3287a5d0027c4a1bf0a2ba76bd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD9A 14300 bytes