Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce0cb5b484a99369…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-23 05:27:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1ace22962765e56be8a58056638b59ef SHA-1: 7e309f8b7f6a6457a22483f93d537315fd671ac4 SHA-256: ce0cb5b484a99369f1b95d842daae495a9de21b724f134fb5ed7715782c505d8
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=identities+worksheet+answers', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Identities worksheet answers', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier 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/pify?keyword=identities+worksheet+answers
    • http://bezoku.diazcounseling.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775503/fb022570f237b7.pdf
    • http://files.comforttrainer.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681002/4312007.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9105/8078/files/kinupalinuvawepabife.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1754/3585/files/33942655271.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4351/1702/files/kunalorufulofuxikol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3142/8248/files/75679964198.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0023/3112/files/dowurukenafabom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6271/2734/files/63245399240.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5896/0286/files/wiwobubuwadiwepula.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4022/6984/files/33024617392.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9907/8304/files/3083706636.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7999/9383/files/adventure_time_card_wars_free_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9168/1699/files/16404093846.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1288/0541/files/zafovojezunuwupati.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_off00006ad1.bin
57a2322403e930d60f57e63dde9c974bfaebdb1c787e0cd32be1e77fd2910d63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AD1 4972 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007bc1.bin
a9e81de79f26afff32fe8c2c1981aa19ec8e082b8eb9c68ad00568e285411981
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BC1 10464 bytes