Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d18e48788f0e2296…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-19 04:08:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2fe646b120dd27ebc618e9be0a90a9f2 SHA-1: 211161e55cb6cc8b44bb8bd2a380f0669006f532 SHA-256: d18e48788f0e2296bedf2cd54961f1a3151da064fc37fcb8b02a5394f24fa4d8
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.cc, which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Free christmas sheet music clarinet' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to entice users to click the link. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to shopify.com, indicates a link farm used for SEO poisoning to improve search engine ranking of malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=free+christmas+sheet+music+clarinet
    • http://toloz.chacalit.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874388/1067871.pdf
    • http://toburi.syxgems.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712207/6678944.pdf
    • http://files.ogologo.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398385/nunagikaf.pdf
    • http://fujiliga.wintersfrenchbulldogs.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071157/kuvapatefe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8095/8617/files/cctv_camera_system.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5058/1662/files/esl_beginner_reading_passages.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4312/5405/files/rifumuvugete.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7018/5879/files/sulosebibizeje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/zimiwedabo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8631/5682/files/70888935160.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7331/5740/files/cameo_v5_apparel_pattern_software_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2580/0087/files/aruba_pec_app_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0771/2155/files/henry_purcell_trumpet_tune.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_off000066c1.bin
e2db945d77607735a620e45317bb4236bc9923f08c53c5ac244b75e224513d13
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66C1 4992 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007792.bin
79798ce81c5693a03a70939ffb36986ce37d265296aab399771fe9c20c49a25d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7792 10884 bytes