Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd07cca55c015e6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.1 KB Created: 2020-08-19 16:50:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 20e411ab6454634d35ff1f3a02484af6 SHA-1: fb091a69492aa41e35389a27953fc923eaddd0b6 SHA-256: bd07cca55c015e6ffdbdb054fa0e64f2831c0f77319263c85122cda5536958a9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=synaptic+package+manager+for+ubuntu+16.+04'. Additionally, it features a PDF link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of external links, with the primary one hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL as the malicious redirector, suggesting the document's purpose is to trick users into clicking it.

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=synaptic+package+manager+for+ubuntu+16.+04
    • http://files.carriedi.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637081/vusewe.pdf
    • http://files.lucdphil.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398143/5fe3838fb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0706/5760/files/parental_alienation_syndrome.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1785/4373/files/literate_programming_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3127/2346/files/50764008402.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8506/9477/files/bertolt_brecht_galileo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9592/4637/files/d_s_vending.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0183/9775/files/kaburob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0934/2621/files/binaural_beats_frequencies_and_effects.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1880/3605/files/54025726133.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8451/3429/files/dezaxixepufi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0790/9781/files/dowuwunuxowoz.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/1/043

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006de2.bin
d5cf2d3030c8611d0f893d7efdc5fa34f48675df9e8bf7725b056d8fdefa9a9b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DE2 6000 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008250.bin
bf1431b8ad302b079d17b291116b7ad3a4bd0f60651aafc4b17db628fece541b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8250 14372 bytes