Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 961f2a56c8dda32d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-08-03 05:20:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d4a272a861d4087e90ae8f49665cfc26 SHA-1: d79768629ed5897614510cb51ef6b05691fc8f56 SHA-256: 961f2a56c8dda32d6aba0855ae4d4be86774aaaf27469fd434e2f909c0b23335
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=nrp+6th+edition+pdf', which is flagged as malicious. Additionally, the document hosts a large number of links to other PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive link within the 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.cc/pify?keyword=nrp+6th+edition+pdf
    • http://files.cowateredplan.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815343/2540742.pdf
    • http://files.gingersurprises.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483083/fukosupobig.pdf
    • http://files.guinodesign.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681826/5771821.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2649/7182/files/gumujagaxaberifekeluveb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6753/9623/files/83918679079.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4752/6305/files/38362593467.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9712/1178/files/66558357900.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2553/0005/files/pijuvugenijuxosig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/berujixawajibexuxutuzogar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3184/6296/files/jekebuvuroruri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7058/6006/files/advanced_cardiovascular_life_support_provider_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6460/6372/files/resident_evil_remastered_walkthrough.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2259/7796/files/42086173976.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0999/1075/files/gurolutokezujuvorogaz.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_off00006e06.bin
2d78f7a2724a03e2cf3302cb0472412f48928c9ca4724713fe8743cf6299365e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E06 4832 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007e7f.bin
894f2a8eee52d081d11b265f9e0582814ee5fe221f71e2006f17523b0d40392a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E7F 15900 bytes