Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dfdb1ef49f0cd62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.1 KB Created: 2020-08-09 10:39:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3109cd13190bb2f27330065f12e44e0e SHA-1: 45cd298e5f9e1a5d48d69b3bc6300a232ab92c9b SHA-256: 9dfdb1ef49f0cd62f3317fd6cb9651f09173ac3931b7ccd4347c88e6f36a5a85
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector: https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=baroque+period+worksheets+pdf. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious URL is clear.

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=baroque+period+worksheets+pdf
    • http://files.spiritcentral.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969993/5791019.pdf
    • http://files.bostonshoestoboots.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739510/07ab36f240b929.pdf
    • http://files.la-enthusiast.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740242/9050037.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2629/8533/files/how_to_farm_mushrooms_minecraft.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9367/8497/files/rosiwof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9226/2560/files/bukekavulawebep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2290/7549/files/bojanegubelo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2702/9400/files/napumugagumowirowigariwu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8152/1565/files/apprendre_le_franais_dbutant_livre.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4718/1718/files/35018896864.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1219/2413/files/sikitemexekuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9915/2799/files/3330547848.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7664/9124/files/sufekomagarob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1772/2280/files/1-_99_cooking_guide_osrs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8790/4422/files/77511124005.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_off00005a53.bin
bead7fc2cef2b4ed9da97bd8c93d2b94ed3655c8b60dc6b78cf4219295a16125
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A53 5428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006cdc.bin
8a6dbbfba69cea434c87ed94ffcb2901b07249ca68a47fae40c8e5976dae6127
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CDC 10372 bytes