Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb145528681f8ec4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.2 KB Created: 2020-08-25 04:49:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 328f6b036a975b10949614ab90f968fd SHA-1: 963c5e1aca0b3ee9c0b946c225df6887557325d7 SHA-256: cb145528681f8ec48e1ebfd20d8b1ef628ef59c53b3a178c7fa0eb8d2a1fed5d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector, indicating an attempt to redirect users to harmful sites. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to a 'worksheet'. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=regulation+of+cell+cycle+and+cancer+worksheet, which is likely used to initiate a phishing or malware download chain. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDF links, while many are benign, suggests a tactic to obscure the malicious redirector.

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=regulation+of+cell+cycle+and+cancer+worksheet
    • http://files.smyrnapta.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874240/db7bc0f.pdf
    • http://files.hat.ag/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682030/nibose_liraboraraduvan_weture_rodewiripaxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1055/5047/files/56742648911.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7176/6695/files/84749850181.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8827/2807/files/emuparadise_workaround_not_working.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5167/7856/files/89033109151.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6083/8050/files/57423693239.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2597/9813/files/41047549759.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1022/0447/files/purebosawutesisodig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/12584167006.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1775/6057/files/anticipation_secret_garden_sheet_music.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_off00004efe.bin
7634dbd9f07b06c59daee4fed3c291f101c52ccd0382f05b1989c42058c69fa5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4EFE 5548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000061fe.bin
d9fcbab128aab44bd9f3a9b87da57cb32c5890d588b359e3a74a1044576383cb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61FE 9976 bytes