Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b151cae3e036a6fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.4 KB Created: 2020-08-08 13:49:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0c0abea3e10b5697f9135f72bc09e710 SHA-1: 9f531563307911279b7ae118a41274481fc88208 SHA-256: b151cae3e036a6fdd520a1baf10cd66dadead97e72aa634b22eb7b150b54e42b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on Shopify. One of the primary links, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=forming+adjectives+from+nouns+worksheets+pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to lure users to malicious infrastructure through a link farm, likely for further exploitation or phishing. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=forming+adjectives+from+nouns+worksheets+pdf
    • http://files.meandyouspa.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070192/niwudakoxi-tulugogopebem.pdf
    • http://files.expertpromotions.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606526/tidiloje.pdf
    • http://files.trinidadrifleassociation.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712209/3065394.pdf
    • http://files.natethehitmaker.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071067/db5278a9861.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9222/9797/files/79147429430.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4888/6684/files/autocad_electrical_design.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0154/4863/files/7292581300.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1559/4399/files/sanitary_fittings_and_fixtures.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/6219719719.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9890/5507/files/tokudotube.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9912/0033/files/xerudegopazuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1501/2511/files/artropodos_microbiologia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6352/5029/files/marilyn_hickey_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/0574/1989/files/makkar_writing_book_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0993/2440/files/dr_1094.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6131/2676/files/58795109028.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_off0000570c.bin
e7cb5268377845c844360abeeb7af86a143e88669d80d772952236c433f86dcb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x570C 5784 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006ab2.bin
633d4e0d547f7c5f0dbeb147c25ddb3714e874f6315a5005a4d337dfb7d8906a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AB2 9952 bytes