Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adbc13da1136cb57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-15 02:48:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d42406fb43d0ad434cad14da41a43f72 SHA-1: 24d93a0f3b55a9f6da610d8c588b157c5fa77291 SHA-256: adbc13da1136cb574a3426e2537c8aa39e3662932c98491633a3bfe3f6344762
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector (ttraff.com). The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting an attempt to lure the user to malicious content. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve SEO for malicious content or to obscure the true destination. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=vikings+series+4+episode+guide
    • http://jozid.ecigsuperstores.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969045/f8d2a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6577/8076/files/tropic_seas_spas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4352/0665/files/bufafujolebeziw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6965/files/zisabiten.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6423/7988/files/13855638982.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6786/6278/files/dbrau_date_sheet_2019_sarkari_result.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5212/1762/files/59272270257.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5542/4423/files/refuni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bibekejufalakudogaloseja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6644/2406/files/54999233539.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1425/7815/files/craftsman_109._20630_lathe_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0697/5382/files/wefuvopun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8249/7701/files/carpentry_tools_and_equipment.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_off0000615d.bin
880a4cb4aaa851174e952743314032c2e07ea5d4a1f39d90ed77f811a920e7a8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x615D 5000 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007277.bin
9b37d450acd9c7656faff274edb366255141264653bed7b73427f6262561139b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7277 14356 bytes