Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6ead5ccf65c3da5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-20 12:48:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c686dd531814724bceb46f1001fdedf3 SHA-1: 425c800101f11f0e572bfd4174dd4468e745fd91 SHA-256: a6ead5ccf65c3da5ff49ae2106bb5dce9f9f0bc0d986baf8da93ebd1ee6ffc67
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=enhance+shaman+guide+classic', which is also listed as an unknown URL. This suggests the PDF is designed to redirect users to a malicious site. The presence of numerous Shopify links, some confirmed benign and others unknown, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the malicious redirector.

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=enhance+shaman+guide+classic
    • http://kegitil.mariahelliott.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682663/povazunuwatoxulo.pdf
    • http://mapat.thechocolatebar.shop/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383664/manefo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2956/0481/files/74602694437.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9620/2661/files/maritime_abbreviations_dictionary.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4245/3157/files/solues_isotonicas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8691/3431/files/64828759769.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3847/4393/files/6924095128.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6576/1176/files/20371899561.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0892/5602/files/31410942709.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1636/2920/files/epidural_anaesthesia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7016/8986/files/91318935417.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2831/5293/files/78547307125.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1103/0683/files/29826871116.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7435/5351/files/damodaran_valuation_spreadsheet.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_off000067eb.bin
dc42274ed6fbe20bc6744934f8a1554fbb871772226f0f44bb9d10bc7e4b79bc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67EB 5216 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007978.bin
9f4d186c56ae3c66ac7e119ca828ebfcf7fe8102616ed78264dfa6a4c7c0b102
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7978 10228 bytes