Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aae1fb54106ef37f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.5 KB Created: 2020-07-31 16:49:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d9fca96830d5e27a68c56d6d29c0230f SHA-1: 439057cd0ff31e00d3d9d444e9fd90c2b203f8b8 SHA-256: aae1fb54106ef37f642852153977d5608c6d8bd661ec7e8be2da1805b76b7620
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, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=50+sombras+mas+oscuras+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing the lure. The presence of a link farm heuristic further suggests a broad, automated distribution method.

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=50+sombras+mas+oscuras+pdf
    • http://files.purpleribbonpublishing.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383398/xasaral.pdf
    • http://files.erkko-trophy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740053/1bdd0f96934.pdf
    • http://files.arelationshipcounselingcenter.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409761/bitamazogowizu.pdf
    • http://files.wivesofarmor.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814043/769ac14.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3005/2005/files/15435746766.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0269/1743/files/81298947919.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4517/5971/files/nivofuwafapomefizopom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1371/6643/files/8932509803.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3346/7807/files/formula_of_mean_median_and_mode_pdf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0935/1585/files/48869158529.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4641/1160/files/lesiruvujubazesi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4015/3505/files/80567301428.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5156/4707/files/53093159352.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_off00008d61.bin
7369d591df3a76db1f43d82d1a3ec228420013772fafa031f8dae9632f48868f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D61 5580 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a03a.bin
60a8aac45a737a1051a5fc33b08028f4ad6c6763398c3971484ac679229b61cb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA03A 13908 bytes