Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f862b4c987c6735…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-23 00:05:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d248ba7db2cdb7369333e1d29536561b SHA-1: 8fce2d2e629c288bd08e78ef8dc0bc22ca90936a SHA-256: 8f862b4c987c6735bc8f49f649749f68aa9247aab269283510e325336121d53e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a malicious redirector at 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a guide, which is likely a lure to entice users to click the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, supporting the conclusion that this PDF is designed for malicious redirection.

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=eve+online+basic+skills+guide
    • http://tabutu.eastshorecf.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/bamogoreserowog.pdf
    • http://vuweruv.thorntonheathcricket.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814017/xomejiroj.pdf
    • http://niwavof.belladesgagnes.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381464/b4d042fade.pdf
    • http://files.ukogc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380345/fifeb.pdf
    • http://files.ferdinandeibl.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873921/nixuwexesive-zakonur-jidikamagogub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3770/4867/files/51198548577.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5557/0341/files/91044920689.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7203/4718/files/lamosazepanuwej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5109/0077/files/xidujetimadi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3813/8783/files/marolovalub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4087/4408/files/89106640345.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8909/3018/files/kiwojapa.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_off00005f8e.bin
b597fcb8e878161c4d57981252de924cb3ee3bfa05b1569c37674f678db82ee1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F8E 5232 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007171.bin
9ae168e94f6cdcb35f2b6ef6f8513a5ace9d2ba11f5f425565ac3498b70cd855
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7171 10208 bytes