Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ac7358d32a2c038…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-10 13:05:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d9253529d260e5b64ecc8ff4bed57116 SHA-1: 17924ec244604b92dad8f2a15acc23e5ba2e6ac4 SHA-256: 9ac7358d32a2c038b31fb43d7effd0e8b07aa14b159b76b4e43f94703330c0c2
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=livros+sobre+liberalismo+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links indicates a link farm strategy to obscure the malicious destination. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=livros+sobre+liberalismo+pdf
    • http://files.clearpointtechdesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636655/diwuzoremibav.pdf
    • http://files.greenmarkdairy.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856703/mekuliworuge.pdf
    • http://rexum.frufruandfeathers.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738848/rugoxe.pdf
    • http://files.reillyjones.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406288/9160455.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6997/2383/files/97414032724.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4293/8784/files/29624375655.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8334/7606/files/beginners_english_questions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9954/6010/files/posenofijekinifuzemoma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1502/0448/files/sepirew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0593/3730/files/nularexebefenifek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/84312174386.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0204/4316/files/17895975827.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4571/6119/files/ruxisexarazagobevolanimi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8131/1132/files/gutam.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_off00006c1c.bin
265a56bec7f1bdebd59bef6d2f7c210094ed22fbaff0b65a71d57f69715ceec1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C1C 5328 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007e29.bin
7b9f282351be00685c8b58972c69c47bf96c24f921073c906b11223261a3e1b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E29 12092 bytes