Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b89a3b62d93e83cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-16 16:16:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 378f98bc290158325b4f7c14b2ebae81 SHA-1: 07c513a424c5c3e7ff9c3ef52d87d3db1c7d89fd SHA-256: b89a3b62d93e83cc93957ae55a1b9483d7bafc2967604fde443b040d5c54ca4a
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.cc, which is designed to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and a reference to a product manual, suggesting a lure. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify, which is characteristic of SEO link farm abuse to improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

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.cc/pify?keyword=leupold+zero+point+boresighter+manual
    • http://tenune.durrellodom.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406605/8559906.pdf
    • http://files.iepconsultingwithcatherineevans.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483361/b25e389e4251.pdf
    • http://serudoged.collaborativenursingnetworknepa.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776445/pozenimupadukef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7393/6291/files/44919998030.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8226/1415/files/20386210444.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/37357510366.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8426/5110/files/50881177564.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2821/5968/files/aminoacidos_de_cadena_ramificada_deporte.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0733/6857/files/luvege.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9377/8837/files/77156524081.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/6917/3923/files/kunewugeta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5544/8213/files/leech_lake_fishing_report_mn.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2821/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000062be.bin
b72eb34180a2d00f00ed1d2605f751d25102edac6ed9d13ac2139f35d9b9e879
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62BE 5504 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007541.bin
d8609c066323918105adfc0134c8011d7f0a5767c69e16aef8927bb4c708137c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7541 10640 bytes