Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f87b196d8dba6cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 13:30:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f28b1423dd4552b017e0603f5bad159a SHA-1: ef729ce9063ffba3935f8560b4fb7bf33fcfe8b3 SHA-256: 8f87b196d8dba6cf63e0fab2ce2b3847b71c8f377d0457f1b87716077fdeedd8
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK specifically flags the URL https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=the+family+handyman+make+it+last as malicious. The presence of a large number of other embedded links, identified by PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, suggests a link farm or spamming technique. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains garbled text but includes the malicious URL and several benign Shopify URLs.

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/wix?keyword=the+family+handyman+make+it+last
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8535/7463/files/tools_for_strengths_based_assessment_and_evaluation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4272/5275/files/29306085368.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7245/4810/files/free_funny_ringtones_downloads.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9449/7698/files/ms_excel_college_loan_calculator_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3606/5438/files/4972269283.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4504/3876/files/fimenesarudi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1042/4985/files/anemia_microcitica_hipocromica_causas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4950/7223/files/biblia_straubinger_nuevo_testamento.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7741/8651/files/present_simple_tense_exercises_for_beginners_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0079/9140/files/43175056098.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8261/0843/files/nintendo_ds_r4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tedogunugovosilogupex.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_off00006b66.bin
f23ac354b776cc3e8ae4016fa22e2a76e23e38e0f2ead0e02ea60ff50eb3e436
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B66 5164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007cea.bin
797fdbd494cc53591d499f75f61e17b174505a0309c5d297d0f5e92f3c6e878b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CEA 10120 bytes