Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af47c0a2b0be6238…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-08-10 01:09:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1d123e8801745b38e9dd758ea405fb13 SHA-1: 2ad29e4727d3029dd8f7464287fd93b8c1f61ecc SHA-256: af47c0a2b0be6238b0b2d5a9e0f72214990c0952f872007926e615b497238331
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=brothers+karamazov+mcduff+pdf'. Another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, suggesting the document is designed to drive traffic to external sites. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body appears to be corrupted or obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious URL and the link farm heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=brothers+karamazov+mcduff+pdf
    • http://bisalejad.brantleyanimalrescuecoalition.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383483/jolatezasijola.pdf
    • http://papavek.vodousorcerer.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438464/d6ae2424d49cab.pdf
    • http://piwesugud.osifashions.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681352/66fa0fcb5.pdf
    • http://files.wmualphalambdadelta.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398498/magofozemotafoxin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6649/1042/files/gefapuvosali.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4016/2467/files/juwufemomide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2651/4077/files/92241752989.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3810/3962/files/72787994166.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5720/8731/files/zajesu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2535/6184/files/borderlands_2_minecraft_area.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/60868594071.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1687/0298/files/charismatic_leadership_definition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6396/7906/files/geguj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/1160/9500/files/lua_table_to_string.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4462/5822/files/17149525932.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_off00006fa3.bin
5df0db3580a578ba411625f0eaf7c8461743779bd00f3d49a91f432ec91fdfcc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FA3 5588 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008289.bin
ee78df500b482e8b6623e740fb29e5d08908a8f3984aaa389904bcbbe68851de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8289 9944 bytes