Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ec90c207fef1965…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.9 KB Created: 2020-07-26 17:48:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d9e83c3505ba36e3906e6d97ffffaf11 SHA-1: 99012a91780029e611698d5ded82865997e1de3a SHA-256: 8ec90c207fef1965a57bcfbb0cf17bd99a60fa6ff348b7d2fdeac287d3e346db
152 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 characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on 'cdn.shopify.com'. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector suggests the intent is to lure the user to a compromised site.

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=transformers+wiki+charlie+watson
    • http://files.threefeatherscreations.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739480/sejesero.pdf
    • http://files.iamshiii.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606366/1924343.pdf
    • http://files.strategicmotv8r.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739490/lobabo.pdf
    • http://files.chotaliahumanrights.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739754/2977605.pdf
    • http://files.iamshiii.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/13160636
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4997/5959/files/63731996189.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8949/4177/files/wokagap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wiwatubaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2197/6220/files/diwugidewurux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8092/4840/files/rapolajawus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6254/9910/files/powivuloxesa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0654/7352/files/rugawapideji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8341/5204/files/rapejoguvepemiribusom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6761/3087/files/vegunab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6415/6582/files/78708343464.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_off0000744c.bin
a0f656e0caa0060a34830247777cee841f6e2cd2b14d6dd5e0392f56786cb24d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x744C 5016 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008532.bin
1ffdabdc01bbb8ec873aef60f30948f2de73d5d5757ca47af8ee34e0dece3474
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8532 10260 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a847.bin
49fd68e0a7e9b3c3b7090b35c4d6d908f44d31ee12f1d9ee074d2760eccc77e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA847 21100 bytes