Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 982a623b3c3bada9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-08-23 06:09:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 39b22e496895659d17f93957d055bdbf SHA-1: ca5c30ac4ed8d782b633d602f07ab01de1618a0c SHA-256: 982a623b3c3bada90b1537628cf1d26e4761c19a197303a9f782f927cdc9de3f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=oxford+medical+concise+dictionary+free, which is likely part of a redirection chain. Numerous other links to PDFs hosted on Shopify and other domains were also found, contributing to the link farm heuristic.

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=oxford+medical+concise+dictionary+free
    • http://lofugubi.5dperformancehorses.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/0dbbe.pdf
    • http://sikujos.agefriendlysarnia.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696056/lerur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9330/2178/files/rejug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2478/4292/files/mezejibizaguxugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7121/6542/files/understanding_capital_markets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8052/3681/files/xajomozemazumu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3626/2052/files/dictionnaire_apocryphe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4047/2229/files/nugenuzinit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0334/6078/files/28747457654.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1764/9819/files/the_cask_of_amontillado_annotations.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5651/2680/files/vetadadawaxomonaxakifafu.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000623c.bin
72e8a166dfe1e7fd7e31be103103e548fdc5ece4c649451d3dee61d665521ef5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x623C 5152 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000073b1.bin
9746e9008b4fe9a750b8ebf1f266166a1e6ca244313bfedeac1cf753a7cc9877
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73B1 9924 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009594.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9594 4324 bytes