Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3ce979929b5be83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-08-19 03:15:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1257af1cc890997a754c0355cd3586f8 SHA-1: 01b3da7a183b9be7e65e2bac5338a46b85726bc4 SHA-256: b3ce979929b5be833b7daac5116943a0a20b3bb456900d9df0a29437b3a01952
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm and a redirector link disguised with a relevant keyword. The primary malicious link, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=out+of+office+message+template+in+outlook', is designed to lure users into clicking it. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a tactic to inflate search engine rankings or distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links strongly indicate a phishing or redirection 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=out+of+office+message+template+in+outlook
    • http://dodere.vmiengineering.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740435/setuvekagek.pdf
    • http://files.mrsvietnamworld.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740033/biwamufu.pdf
    • http://files.rocksteel.co.za/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740488/4065338.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/carnatic_music_thalam_theory.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8094/1729/files/arithmetic_and_geometric_sequence.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5674/1022/files/cell_phone_ringer_amplifier.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6231/3631/files/54105271332.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7833/6165/files/lirokapalukewodon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6496/5782/files/lixulanemibegetusi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8386/6018/files/logube.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5372/6358/files/41014302627.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3735/0293/files/27423787676.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6343/5679/files/17933145304.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5965/7374/files/23605117847.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_off00005b69.bin
c11039bf2d7d6e2f5e9bc7dc09088d6cf3e44a150fe41a233c747156ca06bb5e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B69 5328 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d88.bin
81c91959a7d780a0b1927701277176bb223fde689cc07c06c34c6a4e107e9d68
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D88 10120 bytes