Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b04c065aaf73ba2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-08-03 05:42:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0d338afa703508fca6458a8cbed0c6a4 SHA-1: 9514d7ffb59de419889ad7fe0a9c646230e0bcad SHA-256: 9b04c065aaf73ba21df137d5feeee7f0d60e7aa64ca9510f266c63652f4bb7a5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to a critical heuristic identifying it as a redirector link farm, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=torrent+vr+porn'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggesting a link-farming or redirection scheme to hide the ultimate malicious destination. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=torrent+vr+porn
    • http://files.arjunray.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815437/266bedb26fd5.pdf
    • http://files.southdartmoorcommunityenergy.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856185/9059338.pdf
    • http://files.jessicasalfia.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437158/7671644.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9072/2469/files/what_is_an_example_of_an_oligopoly.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8202/3061/files/minecraft_scientist_skin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6081/2189/files/60197472781.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3177/3852/files/tugek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9818/6652/files/proficy_machine_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6302/4542/files/67659155926.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5235/1144/files/kosofo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2537/4103/files/getuwadaberarilagovogeri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9862/8501/files/68127018535.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tovetutokukike.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3430/1848/files/43699535070.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5974/7745/files/99970788516.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_off000077b6.bin
9a135572f5412cd1ea0640915adf36cd8a1e58a6784914fba24f0625a92a15aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77B6 4400 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000086c5.bin
0fc08d74a591977d1a72e9b57020c715277e8954deb2b519c7ca1d83818e030c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86C5 10744 bytes