Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6fa6965fb38f5bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.0 KB Created: 2020-08-01 23:41:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c72b5ee51f2cb28ef1ba3250cdf22b09 SHA-1: c67e07853e7b8ff5eda19d67950766ca93e2b884 SHA-256: d6fa6965fb38f5bc0b4c1917aa4511981d955374a9ba489cb4c11c1fcda425e4
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or phishing campaign designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

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=pylab+istft+function
    • http://files.angelwalk.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379353/ae6c8cae2fea.pdf
    • http://files.mcnairy.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606295/31fc931253d67.pdf
    • http://files.maketucafe.co.nz/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814402/93f2575e5.pdf
    • http://files.jerronjorgensen.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969241/881973.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7840/9639/files/vukeniboviriparojitenir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6564/7002/files/29431767705.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9562/1796/files/worutij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1664/0923/files/10931328665.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8706/9348/files/zulagozuvatedatenifuzazuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8940/2779/files/10381977098.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1846/7997/files/68148205024.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8511/0171/files/40596972757.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9140/9562/files/95259612206.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4504/4892/files/74882433497.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_off00009550.bin
f9802780768d2f5947b5848eef513344be9777b981e251717e3f0142a2b95893
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9550 5020 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a688.bin
0cb0c4fbd57aefbcf5ed5788548b200ae3aa338672d9df259c94b9626c2b6bde
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA688 16152 bytes