Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93d4def52fe945c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.8 KB Created: 2020-08-14 19:06:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1d2c049b029f0259c932468abe18aa1b SHA-1: 0b8895bc7e4a285583b8ad780ea79623107c17c8 SHA-256: 93d4def52fe945c2f96b78989f8c1cb3f5c233eb0a517bda97fec150fd999fc8
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is designed to lure users to malicious content. The document body and embedded artifacts suggest it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDF documents from web content. The presence of a link farm with numerous Shopify URLs, while many are benign, indicates a potential attempt to obscure the malicious redirector or to appear as a legitimate content aggregator. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=albumina%20funciones%20pdf
    • http://files.redbarnsaintbernards.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739633/likelifun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6229/5716/files/oscar_awards_2020_winners_list_file.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/19085525902.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4098/0643/files/intex_pool_pump_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0792/6687/files/boltzmann_distribution.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2964/0854/files/sensory_evaluation_of_food_quality.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3884/2779/files/78808098994.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6200/9760/files/laxiguzajodofozexabekux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5795/4464/files/30123779605.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4560/0936/files/pixidepigumase.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0496/0661/files/zifegixofogiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9684/2142/files/dosadagabenafetufogakugex.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • https://medlineplus.gov/spanish/pruebas-de-laboratorio/prueba-de-albumina-en-la-sangre/
    • 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_off00008b44.bin
02018ea1d939ec498a9e64cadcca65ada032853815df33bcf667f24c24b08f0e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B44 5332 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009d46.bin
bfec3d78d96b947275bf5075a1403a49db13d6eed8e2e43152f22a2bbf571878
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D46 10980 bytes