Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be26119bc51c45a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-02 19:08:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e02361704bef284177d2282a39f76cf3 SHA-1: 6b629ff737ce7b89debe3d6bd8a353be55f5bccc SHA-256: be26119bc51c45a92e51d23a2c1d0ad49e981a3bbe516210c7742714ed42b5fe
154 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.ru, which is likely intended to lead the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and the title 'Daddys worst nightmare', suggesting a lure. The PDF also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to shopify.com, which is likely an attempt to obscure the malicious redirector or to appear as a legitimate link farm.

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.ru/pify?keyword=daddys+worst+nightmare
    • http://files.talkingtoyourdoctor.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438353/xukabanatixamug.pdf
    • http://files.tbamfordguitartutor.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483491/zagose.pdf
    • http://files.mtviewcrc.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969284/1938947.pdf
    • http://files.eleanor-e-books.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379971/nejobikozuzufozewe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1264/4251/files/16076640248.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2870/0571/files/11211511632.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5460/4198/files/96606276188.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8565/2375/files/lunukawu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3066/6651/files/zemogetabevewivixoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7607/6188/files/mazibimatamesuvuwakadowoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8992/9116/files/63324743552.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7977/0019/files/messages_customiser_ios_9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3741/6869/files/10246672475.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9938/1146/files/dark_knight_script.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8976/5276/files/josev.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006434.bin
c02985e626bb12e03b09b5a8aa2ea7cf4c1a4a16d60051bbb3e8e5d0e28d251c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6434 5188 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075be.bin
9ab48b84a5cb90e784840b72d265453cee9e8d6a95480ec813393aff03fcc9d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75BE 10340 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009919.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9919 4324 bytes