Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9b8045294ba6da4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.0 KB Created: 2020-08-11 17:24:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e07810bdc2f2582e871eb097bca8fde6 SHA-1: 7f21c749a40b96ed344a586331e00652fc1cfaea SHA-256: c9b8045294ba6da46b278b4bf547f60fa048d4bcb0240ec9191e7a4b1853fe8e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Mechanical waves pdf' and the malicious URL 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=mechanical%20waves%20pdf', suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm used for SEO poisoning or distributing further malicious content. The ML classifier also 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/wb?keyword=mechanical%20waves%20pdf
    • http://files.caasfepconference2020.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813095/8387626.pdf
    • http://files.pipandwillys.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682051/86101695dbb20.pdf
    • http://zapen.scoil-mhuire.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683014/7022809.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4745/1798/files/flash_download_chrome.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2174/6847/files/bafipef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3404/8669/files/6210392037.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9925/1093/files/jogivilomutowedive.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4790/3644/files/trane_xl624_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7872/9374/files/bulletproof_roadmap_diet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4041/6678/files/94160947888.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0086/3640/files/accuracy_and_precision_definition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3932/6365/files/tepanubojugiku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8950/2110/files/dajexanimetofisogi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2326/9014/files/38593527285.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6319/6310/files/zudoferawiledexufo.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_off00005a9a.bin
e87d4babe23c44640b51662a07820d80f4c0076a802906b0c76c91eff1559504
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A9A 5304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006cbd.bin
2d686f20446a2a1145759759d24a484528c1163c55e07cc61dda4b62b331daa2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CBD 10256 bytes