Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a496b01a97d2186c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-02 05:28:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c89fcfa5baafac7023ef7d6ac3c6ccdf SHA-1: 4fa51f422ddffd0d2ae1272f67e8bdbaf5c31f1e SHA-256: a496b01a97d2186c133a3bc37127fab263ae8be1da686977835cb7633fa57639
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.com, which is likely used to lead the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Battlefield 4 emblems' and the PDF creation tool, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of numerous embedded links to Shopify domains, while many are benign, contributes to the overall SEO-based link farm tactic.

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=battlefield+4+emblems
    • http://files.msharrisfirstgrade.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163669/45dda74916.pdf
    • http://files.patradolk.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682124/d925d1864b3.pdf
    • http://files.stlaurenceotoolesnsonline.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856919/puxedaxe_jugeno_pinaditata.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0921/1549/files/53489082758.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0575/0946/files/how_to_strikethrough_in_discord.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0820/4701/files/68299379555.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6572/1503/files/73655771726.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2394/9224/files/kavalaxemozalex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5417/8216/files/kadomekipaxivajisi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9946/9464/files/37921440553.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8745/2576/files/31915510624.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3531/9711/files/voluw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1725/6603/files/7785394246.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3136/2725/files/backroom_casting_couch_compilation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0648/3876/files/92795720322.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6699/0502/files/71433318917.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6810/4602/files/37888629153.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_off0000672e.bin
fb0d96b68ddf16db9f21aa3fcff0ed9e2cfe9016ff25b299291f44efdfbdeef3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x672E 5236 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078f5.bin
9c387b93fad3f5e679d13dcf4be04488b8f7082c84961384afef29beb4c34276
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78F5 10640 bytes