Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5f1060a24b7b41f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.3 KB Created: 2020-08-27 23:40:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f691898fb1c97baf6577723fc080be95 SHA-1: c65f12da4f06f8c84dc1d84e8746f37b8b70ea9f SHA-256: c5f1060a24b7b41fed189e1dfaae045aacf2b87a610ac5aab66f4b696ae41526
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 likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and a reference to a song title, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDF links, while many are benign, indicates a potential link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious PDF. 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=un+vizhigalil+darling+song+karaoke
    • http://files.northsidepresby.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740553/bofut_jefezogu_roxovizepilexe_jikitojukiwe.pdf
    • http://retin.tileplus.net/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816165/terile-zemozogoregu-dorixu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2226/2178/files/78119620977.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4889/files/44850679481.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2837/2886/files/37117889107.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4125/0714/files/jojiruvabowazuwinefiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0631/0046/files/keruluxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9163/8934/files/https_192._168._l._254._254.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7230/6846/files/96367084713.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8758/4675/files/46005600050.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1424/0931/files/camera_lucida_reflections_on_photography_roland_barthes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9904/6553/files/voxik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9792/2461/files/tajazefozafiva.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_off000046cc.bin
d14276b7f72b011565290de287f7325ac5e82b6335e9d77e4a84c35f22066c96
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46CC 4960 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000579f.bin
b7a3493dc904452d6e8e860bb6e4a430c303550ae25835a54db0d904fc170f79
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x579F 10144 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007a47.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A47 4324 bytes