Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0c1c8edfab8926a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-17 00:17:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 16c9a95396961e515bfa0173de2cf37c SHA-1: bc643ef35e0a97f2894b5021a8bc2ddb3a5776d5 SHA-256: b0c1c8edfab8926a0aa0a592ace004a7e3f764bb55556de44f5b69087156884e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely used to obscure the final destination of the malicious payload. The document body and embedded URLs suggest a lure related to converting webpages to PDF, aiming to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=application+convert+webpage+to+pdf
    • http://files.studentfinanceboard.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739190/tasobot.pdf
    • http://files.hoffmanhornetband.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740385/3516679.pdf
    • http://files.jenzgemzshop.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813489/de106.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9896/4117/files/tavetitekamojuxike.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2698/0765/files/ditunofivo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5548/9948/files/64171471179.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1500/1496/files/2576849946.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4073/5381/files/44750282222.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3729/4754/files/temopokej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5313/8591/files/97869509358.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7971/9330/files/rafijeruguj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2329/2822/files/82362042644.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6280/4136/files/lujaxax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3816/1561/files/teori_behaviorisme_watson.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_off000062a4.bin
c3395d3b23b54d5cca59e61fe74e56718ebd58172fe3ae77036b1bc5ba36f833
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62A4 5424 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007530.bin
51b4e1399e255603b3318573316ec4e7f43f505e214c52299e8ae72795a75c97
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7530 9932 bytes