Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a60f6076a4270e1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.4 KB Created: 2020-08-25 18:42:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cfa069740ff9ae7957d8c7bb9e16c450 SHA-1: 5f564ec1ebdaf0b2e3cebd22df045d6ab8dffd0c SHA-256: a60f6076a4270e1f0267b08c3bd74c6b92be1a787f54049875eb7f19e10a0668
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 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=b%2525C3%2525BCy%2525C3%2525BCk+cev%2525C5%25259Fen+indir'. This URL is likely used to redirect users to a malicious site or download further malware. The document also features a link farm of PDF files hosted on shopify.com, with one specific link to 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7927/0554/files/gmat_official_guide_math.pdf' being part of this farm. 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.cc/pify?keyword=b%2525C3%2525BCy%2525C3%2525BCk+cev%2525C5%25259Fen+indir
    • http://files.zenergymassage.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384656/2013779.pdf
    • http://vonal.classicfunctionalhealth.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738730/xuteviro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7927/0554/files/gmat_official_guide_math.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7684/5728/files/advertising_vocabulary_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7518/1471/files/suwarowonupiju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6147/6504/files/22926530348.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3341/9166/files/fazaxisodekinibexeti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7589/5447/files/73780788857.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0679/3627/files/34367371552.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7670/4664/files/kapesizizepagaduwexari.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4891/9450/files/84003787230.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/juzopuzenafososokazulu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2417/7557/files/sign_and_symptoms_of_myocardial_infarction.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_off00004697.bin
24fd223d1e6832b7b0f3094d20f4393e9d51c43352fd62a824a2584a0ff697f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4697 5156 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000580a.bin
e15b2ebe43ea9a35e68bc535d90f77aa07af0580956de74510a986d02b86ccc8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x580A 10556 bytes