Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e24ab1cf64f4f794…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-08-08 19:38:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d3f39d9942ca1e8898b1f18a097913ea SHA-1: 008565344211d58a98590cef3c0a959f2168608f SHA-256: e24ab1cf64f4f794dd89e3e6d478ae796125ca7aae6906f5c00209faa56cc254
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to external PDF files, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to distribute malicious content. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at `https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=forever%20living%20business%20presentation%20pdf`. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive link farm and the redirector URL indicate a probable phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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/wb?keyword=forever%20living%20business%20presentation%20pdf
    • http://files.rockbottomnj.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380107/48b4cf1.pdf
    • http://files.wayfinderlifecoaching.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437949/5794610.pdf
    • http://vuluz.schecktech.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/8640034.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1757/4299/files/xosonemapolep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0438/5690/files/4708330782.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6987/4082/files/bifib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2621/8134/files/69390052469.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7595/9973/files/alkylation_of_enamines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3974/2369/files/39768105651.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4736/1439/files/mac_preview_add_png_to.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4654/1211/files/72916895706.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7990/9028/files/82688207794.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9229/5332/files/88570223833.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5376/8095/files/html_file_to_python.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_off00006d13.bin
6008cf9f575603eaf8c614ac9dd5d9f893e6ac12e56f8628e8b6763cb16ccbe8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D13 5364 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f62.bin
0b3da4dd2a268df06f9faec9e08de1fe74a16e3d22dbc67283d21283fa85f770
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F62 10408 bytes