Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf0eed1638cfcf86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.9 KB Created: 2020-07-30 21:00:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 24d63d8a130252bb2706a48d67320ce2 SHA-1: ae1bb45bed6f09c8178e91a9fd67429e0651a83d SHA-256: cf0eed1638cfcf866dcf22b420ae9fe692257fb3fb664c3ab62709075330ece7
154 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, disguised as a calculus PDF. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to the lure. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify, suggests a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to distribute further payloads.

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/pify?keyword=differential+equation+calculus+pdf
    • http://files.newtownyardleychineseschool.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437216/3597544.pdf
    • http://files.spiralspa.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739294/388ac62221e.pdf
    • http://files.skylarkadventures.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739970/gagivewedur.pdf
    • http://files.krismcg.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069832/dd142.pdf
    • http://files.hordlevoluntarycare.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874413/zoladamalija.pdf
    • http://files.hordlevoluntarycare.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/13087441
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5819/1768/files/xanamopeterejesu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1411/1903/files/devoludidulutipoxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3463/0554/files/popemagelaxidurogasem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1425/0905/files/73982762299.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6396/7906/files/mufivesidoperugutew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1270/1854/files/78662649368.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1175/1579/files/91197629737.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6666/1800/files/63471542398.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1239/6968/files/1530889392.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0825/1288/files/17966669748.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9847/2605/files/53833693058.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3529/5905/files/11178249763.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_off00008f3f.bin
e9e2929543934bc98e2edfa0a0ae09b1587b03cb61b05b8a0a4150d020cfee53
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F3F 5156 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a0d4.bin
c8da47d964c65c7c0bd0f610a1deab25861891d7c296dfd431ac54f4f21b6476
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0D4 12888 bytes