Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6ec6ce8a7c4d99f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 13:39:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 22ccb20a6909314fd41aff001c0f858c SHA-1: b6d37665acd6a45aece9522ff2c696f1e67bce60 SHA-256: a6ec6ce8a7c4d99f1423b79429c933d0c3d2dfbe509e69df000a7b162dae99fe
154 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.link/wix?keyword=efeito+glitch+em+filmora'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm behavior, with numerous links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, one of which is 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5654/5433/files/13861553934.pdf'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the malicious URL and references to 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a potential lure or delivery mechanism.

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.link/wix?keyword=efeito+glitch+em+filmora
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5654/5433/files/13861553934.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2651/4077/files/72273118591.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4940/2016/files/tesis_del_alcoholismo_en_los_jovenes.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a18aa6_fc830e58fbea4190aa1e8c28189aa3dd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8bbd7_693a8b942dd4442d88d97d3d7638b6e7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8479371d19b44e2cbf5b22b5ffaed65b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3aca14_10f55ff583674d68b83a0d442b90f52d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/565485_01fc219348f04f839d9895ba3fe16613.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/760101_e5d5688c2eb64f55aff343763a68938f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e17292eb6db1468bb6f5aa040c921649.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8676/5475/files/pdf_to_word._exe_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/9896/0026/files/r_markdown_examples.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_off00006a36.bin
070925d4121b78cbbce51c2a35fdfabcba84ad89049247a004adcee543bc4237
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A36 5076 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b5a.bin
cbb8504ecaca75e42cf607b9f780933ad43d1b80ee7594ef37058ce1e6dcf7f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B5A 10220 bytes