Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1ef384da54a3247…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.1 KB Created: 2020-08-30 00:18:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f8ce9d4c6102e5610f15f30291fa1fb9 SHA-1: e0e4b5d19eeebecb042a840b687150c92f9f0662 SHA-256: e1ef384da54a32473dd889b865a4c90ef8726469aab98ed25fd2318c494c1fdd
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with 14 external links, including a redirector to 'ttraff.com' with a query parameter suggesting an academic lure ('ap+language+exam+2017'). The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector and the link farm strongly suggest the intent is to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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=ap+language+exam+2017
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e61ca8ca5bbe4d16a1c09b3faeaadb92.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_512ea1efca3748809b0548294fbd1bd7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/01e791_f1c30c54039d4b87a71a1b63f30ec442.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0292/1123/files/maldivian_democratic_network_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9378/6791/files/xebonivedob.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63d3ad_b9ddccefa69b4ded966e795dd6376530.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_59da4d82b3f7489ba22734dd22dd03bd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/10e3af_8863332f3c4b49b7ad9f0a4068e26d9d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/74c34a_925e28dfc14148d2ad418df81f0af0b8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_446b3853681d4ffa8a5fb538553834d4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7602/4475/files/52381788086.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0163/3177/files/wijisepalevu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4857/4886/files/14816326416.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3518/1724/files/13187708432.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_off00004b6e.bin
b7cf73c69cdf8536e88394a08549f56c778127d687095d6967f7f5e1acc76d66
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B6E 5328 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005d94.bin
545b2817cd0eda1615d378081263a77de830e19f628d3cb8e25d5aa3a8e5a9b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D94 10176 bytes