Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d92d7df9a7d15d4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.1 KB Created: 2020-08-14 10:33:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0f55179cefbff811b55097951a7c9f87 SHA-1: 73b1553e1940fd1320d4d9b0fd22b26e0340a1ff SHA-256: d92d7df9a7d15d4af6d4f6f07faa9ca012353933255a15cb0ce1764266ff94e9
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. This URL is likely used to direct users to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and appears to be a lure related to a 'wargame airland battle deck guide'. The presence of numerous embedded links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious PDF. 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/pify?keyword=wargame+airland+battle+deck+guide
    • http://files.washington-scottish.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874318/8b0f395751b7b3.pdf
    • http://files.whitegardenia.co/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814039/nawamanogosupuj_mudusisudig_nonufuwilodiju_nowujanofuja.pdf
    • http://files.alohaeigo.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606630/mekopezaxoropojurapi.pdf
    • http://files.socaljea.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776775/4659090.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8280/9508/files/28029598197.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8863/4266/files/sibubewevawuzaxagumi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/bijalikupuxamimidesedol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8909/8907/files/depression_definition_journal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8280/8472/files/tuxeka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1637/2892/files/zodolatut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0568/9499/files/need_for_speed_underground_3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9321/3855/files/65211358896.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6283/4853/files/29426425230.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1434/9215/files/33598161563.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/f

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008647.bin
69a6d455342e6dcb4bdf461cadf4a5fe686920cd3dd0d0b8e095d2bd48aaf518
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8647 5296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009837.bin
a85c3484d12f1d98d1821e3dc87d9b227c339c9c8543c6a6b34381af355139ab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9837 13672 bytes