Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a18742cef86f96f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-10-02 05:02:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0d3ba3026c398e76a92179e1f966a257 SHA-1: b4814ed5f470d04003b02849946c257a4e2d56d5 SHA-256: a18742cef86f96f1ec31e2a31cad69d6271721c8bd327d43bd2fcc7a629d44b2
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=windows+password+change+notification', is identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain text related to password change notifications, suggesting a social engineering lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on strikinglycdn.com and mozfiles.com, indicates a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or improve SEO for malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=windows+password+change+notification
    • http://files.olivianajor.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776088/0302e90ad14e4.pdf
    • http://files.scituatehighschoolathletics.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738711/lakesiriz.pdf
    • http://xekat.mediterranean-maudsley-forum.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/soluwuwutudu_besubitoduxot_nalolazulupo.pdf
    • https://site-1041285.mozfiles.com/files/1041285/56050967249.pdf
    • https://site-1038472.mozfiles.com/files/1038472/16642053586.pdf
    • https://site-1036730.mozfiles.com/files/1036730/minile.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e061dd59-77d0-4db5-b908-58804f3d9080/7928364749.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/87b56514-b5e0-4ffc-b76d-3a6ea3d53560/giwib.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6de10b55-2e2f-41ad-81f2-9c3ee6f7c9db/89720011042.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0517/3147/files/vodisebuwoban.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0479/5993/3095/files/cfr_38_ptsd_sleep_apnea.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0484/6773/8786/files/89673684730.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005e92.bin
5fe7a24919fc0600775129f0319a0f92c3022de897b5955d3b77368f33a10eba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E92 5280 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007094.bin
3ba80c1225be976ac3c730423ab4372e658ada513382965b968042b7185d11c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7094 10240 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000093ac.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93AC 4324 bytes