Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ec82cb311164273…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.5 KB Created: 2020-08-23 13:10:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2dad06ed280ede5d8e83dc5f27dddef5 SHA-1: 5f339baa7c98faebaaecf330ffa8ed1f7da3b126 SHA-256: 9ec82cb31116427384de505ce0522852f23ffdbe88fa3acfcec70ef7b99062fa
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious content within a seemingly legitimate document. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=delhi+university+date+sheet+2018+ba+program
    • http://files.kheartranchita.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814969/bugudodegoxojovomul.pdf
    • http://files.vermontsingingdrum.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776489/1672914.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5058/1662/files/aarya_movie_video_songs_hd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8749/5322/files/gipefubidupajologe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3559/8758/files/63973200056.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6238/6079/files/www._act._org_compass_sample.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9755/4084/files/gowanisamekomeguwuwozu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5009/9100/files/chrome_apps_free_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8821/4171/files/asrock_z75_pro3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7442/7806/files/pufasape.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3448/3605/files/tosetekitebewa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5554/5497/files/lufusuzujerodadad.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_off000083ab.bin
c380b8a16e85d9dc1b1fbbf51a1adf5f3319f4bf1e5269dcbdcca0e7e413c724
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83AB 6196 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000988e.bin
cd77814f1114444e217f7d55c272aba97fa267133b29728260256d4a06a4e744
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x988E 15744 bytes