Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aae37bb7e40812a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.1 KB Created: 2020-08-01 12:04:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ed8808a5d4f1fe4c1f36ccf1b93fac71 SHA-1: f0b5890113a87f61136a17deda860354ed3b497b SHA-256: aae37bb7e40812a69be8f9a37684312ef74d4b5193c18a31f7c76b83c1e67e2e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a primary link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=countries+dropdown+list'. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body text, though partially corrupted, contains the phrase 'Countries dropdown list' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to external content.

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=countries+dropdown+list
    • http://files.j2academy.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814342/2626592.pdf
    • http://files.chloeweir.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776277/detipemoxaxinej.pdf
    • http://files.katemorgancoaching.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680905/jojudiji_vupisunivoreve_timinimipozo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0556/6366/files/xewigenabijapenewoxilef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7021/6597/files/64137546112.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1619/0112/files/72636776952.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2566/0066/files/getujutuwawuvel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5392/2981/files/risiwefexujoru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9413/8268/files/23954855954.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9948/0473/files/fadimuju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6175/5547/files/12264326222.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6245/1611/files/fikimexovejafidiraxusawo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4241/4492/files/legend_drake_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7141/4167/files/51945938219.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0131/4454/files/robola.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1332/5471/files/vuwenezudapopefosan.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_off00005233.bin
e3a91e24bc28bd1869a2c24cd7e1398336d1c0876324afb5999ba290c9c92da8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5233 4740 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006272.bin
ebeb6de32b23df873b34e2ec330f6b2ad8241bdefc1b224f3da042a5cf96b4d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6272 12948 bytes