Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7637182b080aaf9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.6 KB Created: 2020-08-15 12:43:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f42852c480838428fb6411d780667c98 SHA-1: c773dbd8b47bff3331a02f005c33b99bdb29df2a SHA-256: b7637182b080aaf9687eee753de3710a64899e37fb145a42afad3dcf00de45e5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to a critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=cursive+letter+b+worksheet', which is also listed as a suspicious IOC. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=cursive+letter+b+worksheet
    • http://files.marialongmireartandphotography.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409333/nomonaxedetoj.pdf
    • http://files.accidentallymj.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409574/6d295104b9.pdf
    • http://files.yamilkanoa.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383754/nabigutosofarisa.pdf
    • http://files.angelabirkheadflight.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681790/gewemutapewojopuporo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4029/8392/files/59321783716.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1555/8552/files/33304346857.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/35907843284.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5259/6374/files/83120437729.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9277/8901/files/86448091138.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4126/8647/files/54792398836.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7152/8344/files/57638919214.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4012/6614/files/mepuduxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1335/7214/files/ajanta_caves_information_in_marathi.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_off00004b7a.bin
7e761c56147875d993fe09b76705c21063b280dff7345ac88a22528fdc40bd0a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B7A 4824 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005bec.bin
d0fbab0ec82f235d68217da043af236fb0a3f97b36ed487cdef06cc20ef5c48e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BEC 13152 bytes