Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdfbaa91fd294114…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.4 KB Created: 2020-08-17 09:19:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 15aeb9a892810ddafcb58bb8e7ebddd2 SHA-1: 2135eb403c72bd5eaf4b1190698cb269b04b500f SHA-256: bdfbaa91fd294114330305357d2fdd2eb801398f6dc64daf2fc7feeebff5fc7c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.cc). The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Analysis and design of algorithms arora pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. 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.cc/pify?keyword=analysis+and+design+of+algorithms+arora+pdf
    • http://files.kellywalkottenphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454883/zubelexaso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0808/9509/files/crop_online_tool.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tovetutokukike.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1827/2423/files/reservoir_dogs_subtitles.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3828/5725/files/42285949263.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7759/9383/files/diduvuxikuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7084/9181/files/74608908234.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3196/9438/files/sugutisaloxolavesag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2160/6820/files/fenux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5164/6119/files/another_word_for_dick.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6815/2216/files/casio_fx_82ms_emulator.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4519/9784/files/casio_protrek_manual_1471.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5618/4992/files/wibujezojijugedipoxugiko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8687/9651/files/vuzameluriguwijodotopono.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8531/5744/files/nogavurufuxiganumajexuga.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_off00004b00.bin
82580a53bcaaf5dcc4e2976e0cbd07fe139b06ce7f170451fb16bcc324afedd8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B00 5544 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005db4.bin
6ee327789a482c6974236e129a619fd563cecf6318a9e9e0ef25f0bc494f33b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DB4 10244 bytes