Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a47dbb79885ef180…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.6 KB Created: 2020-08-12 07:30:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dbe3337aee7651e705d9e0c78859c4af SHA-1: 1b59206750ebdb3a0da6972bca3ac757c3101433 SHA-256: a47dbb79885ef18014c4cd488181e0da9cc98271529781778498c952676bbb57
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains and one critical redirector link to 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=definition+of+a+good+leader+pdf', indicating a lure to download a PDF. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to redirect users to harmful content.

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=definition+of+a+good+leader+pdf
    • http://files.studentsonclimatechange.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740055/3cfc3506101.pdf
    • http://files.lynnmiriamceramics.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813988/3330.pdf
    • http://files.newhopefund.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398547/sokus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9941/3925/files/giropudig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3009/2712/files/verbs_worksheets_grade_5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3622/9278/files/jiwirobemu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/5362/3970/files/activity_based_learning_in_marathi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5911/7206/files/cutnell_and_johnson_physics_9th_ed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9682/6273/files/peraxituvi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0342/9535/files/subaxivixutirawukozixanax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4437/9546/files/no_mans_sky_sodium_diode.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9671/0047/files/83232402055.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9417/2058/files/mcdougal_littell_algebra_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7209/2315/files/migafakoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8319/2727/files/vujegibane.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3622/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a986.bin
4ae43c7ea3eb8adf8d31c953300340717953b3ae60c1633a7a4c90c78b4a6d66
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA986 5028 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000bab4.bin
04c04aaf7e190aa7caa6c84a4f483db81e44536813c92332b61d348b02e98e31
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAB4 10028 bytes