Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d436802dbd3c9ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-19 22:29:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fdc858e80b127256c06b01eecdbc684c SHA-1: 193f9a635bd11b80f64985adb5465ba51e570776 SHA-256: 9d436802dbd3c9baebbf23c2ec8bf3c18f341bd0222ea5808337b8667c7cfc13
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely used to distribute further malware. The document body also contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to various PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility and traffic to malicious sites. 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.cc/pify?keyword=watchmen+comic+online+espa%25C3%25B1ol+pdf
    • http://files.mypeakperformance.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606069/bumumuk_savaresofobafaf_zivexizokix_tewovewo.pdf
    • http://ladope.loegeringpower.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606552/20debc6fb3ea9.pdf
    • http://waluger.csjmemorialfund.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696483/2882083.pdf
    • http://banujopa.useddredge.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164110/mevuxemarepi.pdf
    • http://files.lynneeast.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681219/8721769.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4251/2802/files/wewezerubolipogo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8005/5958/files/96964520179.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9731/7783/files/89010305940.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0682/7428/files/64_as_a_fraction.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5117/1478/files/english_as_a_second_language_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5294/7873/files/sebatudi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2033/6807/files/1673673365.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1918/1978/files/zulusulovamubosesurokaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wowivitotorinu.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_off00006803.bin
cb88466bcb5aa5165ea05032b91634d8f81b0abcdaae1a87faa75683fad06f9e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6803 5524 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a73.bin
d7f791d334f14cc29594b41d0edfee92547af41c7cbf9aaacfd9b5b9c171e609
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A73 10584 bytes