Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 976638dff3c6f31e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.7 KB Created: 2020-08-19 06:04:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0e47d1da85945bcbb98c520b3436937a SHA-1: 3154adb64ba8bf1f52d4e021b54af8f94403779a SHA-256: 976638dff3c6f31e32d9071373c2b3b9400fde8b666ac2aecd172da92be0b947
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=finding+horizontal+asymptotes+worksheet', suggesting a lure to a malicious site disguised as a worksheet. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to redirect users to harmful content.

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/pify?keyword=finding+horizontal+asymptotes+worksheet
    • http://files.sebastianjamesfoundation.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739340/totibikaxisoru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1938/5502/files/business_vocabulary_in_use_advanced_2nd_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5654/6463/files/miwezafedekorisabaduzum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0755/7283/files/anova_table_explained.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4934/4421/files/57490163151.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9380/2646/files/58655993882.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2129/5003/files/32907226586.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2191/0687/files/collins_english_for_business_speaking.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2252/3288/files/gufikulexoworatix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5082/6905/files/4574096956.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3127/3370/files/abyssal_tentacle_gungeon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3333/7768/files/building_services_technology_and_design.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5530/7159/files/limabemu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6493/3014/files/98649528236.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5883/2294/files/john_deere_4300.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_off000052a1.bin
9b2b11d1adcb5b9fe8f529164458638d70c47b58af6967e734ab979cf8e180d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x52A1 5636 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000065be.bin
5e87f83b84afcc77c8b4015d0c5cb929ce8a28b5967bc788181c33f8b74f500b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65BE 10136 bytes