Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d25ed31bd763fafc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-08-18 16:56:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e96fca49def00962257d6451ab73a36d SHA-1: 9f95d5980d7dd9232c784a12afb46d8732a84f93 SHA-256: d25ed31bd763fafcd35d86a862e41f73f77dcf7eca2fe4d2e2fb3bc27a0f2b28
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a direct link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=vlookup+excel+2016+different+sheet', suggesting a lure related to Excel functionality to entice clicks. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a SEO poisoning or link farm tactic. 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.com/pify?keyword=vlookup+excel+2016+different+sheet
    • http://files.zigzaganalytics.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606159/nejidipakab-nazuxuw-rukujenarus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8343/2096/files/98509302574.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4458/6140/files/79421290094.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5793/7561/files/52001885411.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3490/1660/files/porukodofod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5147/5351/files/rogofigilopiduduna.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9086/8379/files/71722795139.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7020/1760/files/tiroxopuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7590/3383/files/hp_office_pro_8600_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7853/2761/files/90897450528.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1381/6995/files/muatan_dan_medan_listrik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8709/4177/files/13311257592.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_off00006c97.bin
7a169e7c0468688d592b59eb295909b49cb47ea68df05a29d7775c2c4387773e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C97 5612 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007fbe.bin
b462d4c2d6a547fab50f5f7ca90ad5c3e73391d98828d71fc8b4185aa84a8f91
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FBE 10504 bytes