Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2ceb49df805c2ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.7 KB Created: 2020-08-19 02:53:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1d6adbdf023f300c9dbaa174f4639536 SHA-1: b6aa75f0aa99e195a3e796b1f27af40ede21dc7b SHA-256: d2ceb49df805c2ab3ab5f12a98569ea9f9c9b22678e71e066c3308d66a1f4ce6
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=edible+mushrooms+guide+missouri'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a PDF link farm heuristic further supports the malicious intent, suggesting an attempt to distribute content or traffic through numerous links. While no scripts were extracted, the embedded malicious URL is sufficient evidence for this assessment.

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=edible+mushrooms+guide+missouri
    • http://tokawa.theboho.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438641/mikexit.pdf
    • http://fevatiw.crochetmaniac.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383651/tifobor_wejipovewubunut_pezekaporokisiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2862/8124/files/comprehensive_biology_textbook_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/66541571973.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/tomudopeko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3753/7942/files/327674116.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8130/0123/files/poem_analysis_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/5635/0628/files/biometria_fetal_por_ecografia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/2365/7118/files/82192083765.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8320/9631/files/nugizubidax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3196/2535/files/bbg_2._0_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0575/2997/files/zenebixuvomosodipujaf.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_off00008f6a.bin
81734f2c8749be1cd74c0c51b5e5b1b7fa9c6565a0cb13ba14324cd90fff41f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F6A 4820 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009fc1.bin
1b44e26c45f0dcda075da314cf6a028f51dfc8c51812090e25d01592b7ab82b9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9FC1 10484 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000c391.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC391 4324 bytes