Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdfd6f9a44c8fbee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.5 KB Created: 2020-08-20 00:09:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ee81ad434e24446eb85d33abcc5af886 SHA-1: c8623499611a72a26ed6c83bd08d3b88048d52f5 SHA-256: cdfd6f9a44c8fbee283b6b560e5deadb4f3006e4643ffbc9b3b09cd5061de578
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=management+skills+test+questions+and+answers'. This indicates a social engineering attempt to lure the user to a malicious site. The document also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on shopify.com, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

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=management+skills+test+questions+and+answers
    • http://files.create-diy-online.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775102/2742125.pdf
    • http://files.mhcc-ucc.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381976/5567762.pdf
    • http://vavesimeg.bringyourownparent.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683001/kotew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9661/2768/files/47969432546.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4850/8311/files/24334043857.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1190/7488/files/karat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5804/4828/files/61675588371.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2505/5387/files/hiv_and_aids_prevention.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/8629/5719/files/spirit_controlled_temperament.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1407/9143/files/62885596153.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4089/7174/files/simufotoxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3959/6454/files/817320331.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_off00007855.bin
edafe2bc060806d9e8315682855e5eeea80c54fccec84c9a4e299699a3650ec8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7855 5312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008a57.bin
990e8e57d3118a5ae1a4161d860aacd56390a6e0c621f32817b34d339ac373c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A57 9528 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000aac7.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAAC7 4324 bytes