Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5c8dc9627e06c91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.6 KB Created: 2020-08-03 18:42:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d883c0a3f604fef519d187d81a5ea26e SHA-1: 6dcccfc599f8c1512dace13b2c825fd68ed65ea7 SHA-256: b5c8dc9627e06c91473451305418420f57a9231b05fba0f103601bf968c22be7
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, including a critical redirector link to 'ttraff.com', suggesting a link farm or redirection to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'careless whisper guitar chords pdf' and multiple Shopify URLs, indicating a lure to disguise the malicious intent. 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=careless+whisper+guitar+chords+pdf
    • http://files.lishammons.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740595/kawisite.pdf
    • http://files.liveattheriverwalk.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636914/gitesapod-wusesajewonuru-janebogegu-xonalejiwepuvu.pdf
    • http://files.tigertimescmhs.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695832/db0b0215.pdf
    • http://fifesek.manisha-sharma.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437246/wopukobof_bijekam_bowetusumivulaj_pijekixotuwezur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5811/9334/files/zajugaromipavutuwesu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tagesagebog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3070/8375/files/52639864163.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8934/7228/files/say_yes_elliott_smith_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8421/0583/files/53439193447.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2287/5797/files/75055853565.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5987/9841/files/riragifopidabenisuvulufi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9242/6405/files/24270263375.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0745/1042/files/fekozifoferoxinag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7949/9940/files/sufilikewazeruzomas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1791/0944/files/39058370340.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6090/1528/files/dijumowet.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_off00004b7f.bin
edb50e4a9fc8c7e172d25e64a839df031c478d9bbf8ed1f748a0b44738257dfa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B7F 5416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005df5.bin
7672e548d98ed6598d6dd05f70c2dc5886c25983a158bd0b96de718ba25ce483
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DF5 9152 bytes