Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e7b500abe2419a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-13 13:14:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2c826415924c88410a6365af5989a747 SHA-1: 459c7e36ec7a888900c85c55ba489f42d2931c29 SHA-256: 8e7b500abe2419a79803e4d56dcf20a19c1c6fd11bc29361f3de17164829cdfe
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, including a critical redirector link to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text referencing 'Hilti catalogue 2015 pdf', suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous PDF links, many pointing to Shopify domains, indicates a link farm strategy. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to a phishing page or malware download.

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=hilti%20catalogue%202015%20pdf
    • http://vinerijov.retrogamingmtl.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384169/janapigefutud_wuvesuromulaga_tazezubitufe_renupogoge.pdf
    • http://regirekop.karunaforanimals.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407995/d3ce09721a26478.pdf
    • http://nozogex.brianjwelch.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383483/7517299.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4959/0690/files/assistant_restaurant_manager_interview_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7478/1338/files/checkers_game_rules.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8226/0384/files/rokivexufidamisulujis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0736/0667/files/80354684494.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8765/0211/files/custom_python_themes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7752/3861/files/bienaventurados_los_misericordiosos_partitura.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6410/5886/files/sazove.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2511/0952/files/texto_argumentativo_y_sus_caracteristicas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0816/2974/files/52360193546.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0495/2735/files/how_to_install_continuum_shaders.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_off000050a8.bin
01fcba9a0e559a53f70987901b610bad47c3909829750cb41081077692c6634a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50A8 5236 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006285.bin
5b341936859a6996dc0dcb98fd2317bafb246559ad80914de20aec38730f6f6b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6285 12884 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008adf.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8ADF 4324 bytes