Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca1ff3ab88720ad9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-26 22:09:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3540c4fec87757c9c8293f92ccd68907 SHA-1: 6927e97445f3eee13b285fbce73109d0f80c7665 SHA-256: ca1ff3ab88720ad93495d49713ec8d1426defee0a4a5da57c64df35f98c7a4f1
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and contains numerous embedded links. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector service, 'ttraff.cc', which likely serves to obscure the ultimate destination of the malicious payload. Another heuristic indicates a link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting an attempt to leverage legitimate platforms for distribution. The document body contains garbled text and the embedded URLs, indicating a likely phishing or redirection attempt.

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=kathleen+belew+husband
    • http://files.ideamagnets.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775808/garesazoxenob-tujulij-padokesulemikeb.pdf
    • http://files.ignite-the-change.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483830/4576631.pdf
    • http://rawofis.simmsband.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/bezawekefer.pdf
    • http://files.nnwla.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695575/remojudemubive.pdf
    • http://zofiruda.centerforessayexcellence.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874253/dec3a58.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5540/6494/files/gadozatuxuzosezofu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8652/0228/files/vufoleguwuvideleru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2687/files/amazing_grace_the_history_and_theology_of_calvinism.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9301/6232/files/vozudogudejubigi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3523/7269/files/19620992852.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/8161/4748/files/sidujin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8083/5482/files/cells_and_organelles_worksheet_science_spot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8486/3893/files/zinivutezuxuzotod.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_off00006981.bin
7db50c5f6d2d79e3f7a4619184948d3ee5ea871ffa50105dc4a005bdde280f23
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6981 5016 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a9e.bin
424862b806164359a436921f568c00e758074fede4768c384bee7c16482dcf69
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A9E 10280 bytes