Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8bd235ae015f34a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.0 KB Created: 2020-09-17 09:16:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d321a6d64a03dd88434925306613ef7b SHA-1: 3582bc0b14cd9506827b855ee33e1e18dafd9a4a SHA-256: a8bd235ae015f34a121a3054d60368975b67686f6a683dd3f62955bd4b220025
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=upfront+quiz+answers+march+11+2019'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, including 'http://dapefa.utahstudentnurse.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438304/vezoziwofu-nobizobenofusu.pdf'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the same redirector URL, reinforcing the malicious intent.

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.me/wix?keyword=upfront+quiz+answers+march+11+2019
    • http://dapefa.utahstudentnurse.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438304/vezoziwofu-nobizobenofusu.pdf
    • http://files.kamalfashionuk.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379980/3579548.pdf
    • http://files.ceramirdental.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775732/6048785.pdf
    • http://paxavewov.ot4wellness.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872144/67e48b1b5ab7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8627/4967/files/cheeky_crossword_answer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7235/6505/files/98006879419.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3495/9256/files/kujaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9702/2879/files/pathophysiology_of_hepatitis_c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0921/1559/files/rojiponazavefa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8548/6485/files/78221595524.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7827/7525/files/doctor_strange_watch_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5738/8440/files/94832195879.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0574/7108/files/1109303948.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4359/3109/files/88919069190.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4329/8207/files/minecraft_pocket_edition_apk_free_mobogenie.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_off0000a39b.bin
3bf072dd1f9724c20e22c997c3420eb2d31439e7f65951c47626cdd752f0dd3c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA39B 5964 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b7e8.bin
e4613c5a26cb364391eb23b747d322d6318a247e31294991114231a1a580e328
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7E8 10276 bytes