Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb0e6d7b2837f497…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.1 KB Created: 2020-08-14 13:53:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3379042ae92149e56ffbab1007e0dd2f SHA-1: bb7018a6def35f8c3a60a5994a59b7dc0b83a8bb SHA-256: cb0e6d7b2837f497c44f238d47a172c9b7521c933713592103278e0dcd67c9ec
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.com, which is designed to lead users to malicious content. The document body also contains numerous links to other PDFs hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.com/wb?keyword=epilepsy%20ketogenic%20diet%20pdf
    • http://files.gamechangernd.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969993/rokudasawobu_bevul.pdf
    • http://files.hectorzenil.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164567/wufejotuk_voxepijuba.pdf
    • http://files.tuscaloosaguitardrumsbass.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695566/3844605.pdf
    • http://volesarud.saintgeorgechurchok.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968917/pejaxaki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9624/3364/files/41665976486.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2686/6599/files/75113401772.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3229/0215/files/62149840029.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8190/7870/files/wesirokabosaterapa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7182/3262/files/71818612048.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1730/4226/files/xokuwifubavavanosijewixej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/44628440260.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6308/3170/files/gedujijafalivixufo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0637/7632/files/luwesedofonug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/3168/6294/files/andrea_dworkin.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_off00005d53.bin
27596b0c4c99d1a8ae0dbdccf04453cc1c8a35330d7686a40f4830829a98d761
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D53 5140 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006ef8.bin
a51cf343664dd2397c966629e7c5c5fb1d4f44e6aa3c5b96b6dddb527ff32773
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EF8 9624 bytes