Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9461430bf1705383…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.9 KB Created: 2020-08-03 18:44:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f2f672978c482a1de59327beb55ab6c8 SHA-1: b89e861253b6525b7866405c81146998f24662f5 SHA-256: 9461430bf1705383bb86c5569a2af24bfa5d5f65a1423c9f1cdbf783e117e925
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, which is also present in the document body. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=avalon%20water%20dispenser%20bottleless%20manual', is likely intended to lead the user to a malicious site. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector is sufficient evidence of a phishing or redirection attempt.

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/wb?keyword=avalon%20water%20dispenser%20bottleless%20manual
    • http://files.pnagkc.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969343/34ec6003ed3089a.pdf
    • http://files.montessoriassothailand.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379276/joloru-jitebafajevoz.pdf
    • http://files.willowkrimble.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856188/loxafiboverav_susepu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sakemiribukewud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8387/3942/files/epa_608_study_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3775/3501/files/76087497546.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1049/7434/files/vezovirokizifaborunum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5162/2305/files/retemibumajonasafu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9204/2137/files/jokesegiratotefubimadiwo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3188/8021/files/rewosegadagexifutotexudu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4100/4443/files/10877510987.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7729/6543/files/19341081885.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/31611823278.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8146/6005/files/96395883905.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_off00004d37.bin
012d362762e2a4011e422ec0951c34dad0de105b3ba423804379d1780d87e6ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D37 5388 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005f82.bin
4979918c554edfca3b3f6d9021673a54edfe292dc3e2bb9a03e7add578fe4f52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F82 10504 bytes