Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9531aab1eb5d8791…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.5 KB Created: 2020-09-01 04:43:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cbe4a5e3794ca7bac06f82beef695edc SHA-1: 8745886f4a24d6afeff7e9dd67239b187d9f4438 SHA-256: 9531aab1eb5d879197b6cfeb64578e0fe83aa80c80167a13aaa973e20025f0dc
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=da%25C4%259Farc%25C4%25B1k+arap%25C3%25A7a+t%25C3%25BCrk%25C3%25A7e+s%25C3%25B6zl%25C3%25BCk+pdf'. Additionally, it features a PDF link farm with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a tactic to obscure the malicious destination. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though garbled, contains the same URL and appears to be a lure for a Turkish dictionary PDF.

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.me/wix?keyword=da%25C4%259Farc%25C4%25B1k+arap%25C3%25A7a+t%25C3%25BCrk%25C3%25A7e+s%25C3%25B6zl%25C3%25BCk+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/93c935_73d64171b7614429bf3e789187b0ebba.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a91264_256adb9147b441fca976559a73491200.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fa6f14_45df29c03d0c47a5bc66bee63111afc5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9348/9832/files/king_platform_bed_frame_canada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1008/8342/files/34588709462.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3359/9893/files/bopuronivudokekuwukin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4296/3613/files/14224520324.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4037/2896/files/30191794377.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a4e402_6866921336d141c4b5f059cb8a724cad.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/724bd4_7e51856d4b4945ee9015e8752626f42a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/451461_ef7fcf4a2a8b40a6b7e7622b45219672.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7176/6690/files/xasiru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7991/5934/files/javascript_transform_arguments_to_array.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_off00004726.bin
e924251f6ea305d4e866b552a47e4d47f06741271d3d2fe3989b6948a8ec8c36
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4726 5964 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005ad6.bin
9ee8da30c4cb8e449eaeb573931d5f51fe39692dd7faeb6161c2dcbcbea865d4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AD6 11816 bytes