Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2e8b5bc1fa5a7c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.8 KB Created: 2020-08-29 21:18:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eef7315c24271b92da51e9736030745b SHA-1: 6bd3a5a45f8ca92526b50960ba2f626c29ecd0c7 SHA-256: d2e8b5bc1fa5a7c4abe2738ea7ead0dd25173d0bfe1da864bbee02327c40c4e6
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to meeting minutes and the URL itself is embedded within the document. This suggests a social engineering lure to trick users into visiting a malicious site. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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/wix?keyword=simple+minutes+of+meeting+format+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2b14eb682f704021adc5dfbf9910e8c5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4dc69e9bc9cb43d69996ab5e752d6785.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4826f5_9253a36727e04e42ade00ee8c62a9c93.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_26978f67f116458d9ad9da2c047eed00.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8393/7432/files/sakikivubezazoseduvosimo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6965/files/wadujumuvepitidu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/pobilimej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3336/1574/files/ez_go_golf_cart_troubleshooting_charger.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1638/0831/files/36691740187.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9448/1823/files/medabobuwanogigozu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8843/7655/files/potentiometer_working.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5251/4971/files/anime_war_last_episode.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7930/1275/files/7538509035.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6277/1366/files/loi_binomiale_ngative.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5122/0120/files/zenemipedipenemobu.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_off00007baf.bin
8d2c8b8354ef7756cbf39186a18c85486530ccb4e7a34c0c99c65cf166c24107
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BAF 5464 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008e21.bin
97341beaa5aa369de978fa96f989f19fa7bf61a6376fe3c694c0c5098a0cb46d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E21 10480 bytes