Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e29fc74860150fb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.4 KB Created: 2020-09-02 04:41:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d8cf11ec1c9623ee6679933f337f3353 SHA-1: f2068c76e68ee6685021dad46c6d3f94244a89c5 SHA-256: e29fc74860150fb7d21c5d0182a3d7fc282b6dc879b48d69617402ce35806238
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=pdf+file+sample+online' which is flagged as malicious. Additionally, a large number of links to PDF files hosted on Shopify and static.usrfiles.com were found, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier 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=pdf+file+sample+online
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8126/0438/files/zoligubutuzixegufu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2135/3635/files/11745442589.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3547/4590/files/89284040098.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2116/3941/files/payroll_and_accounting_applications.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4058/7431/files/furniture_cad_dwg.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_442a99682b674e5989cf22ddb6f6c15f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7ea8bb_355cadca23c14efb9b1919b72f5d97ec.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/32777b_a5a8ca673bff44eabe29c3be1200d31d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9cc572_d8f77640fbb34e5eacc0b62465ae1112.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d387e0ed889c4da19f37f4ee07faba37.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e9f3a8d2e9e54ebfbcc331b2136e7114.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d17951_b8bd6d008c44485483d348f59f1f62e5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3835dd_bf9f9493da3a4323b1ef85104302b70b.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_off00004d7f.bin
f4e772e21319666bd09184ce31c534dae626b7529b3e8493a131b84517554de7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D7F 5092 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005ec8.bin
73a4752f420cb356ee4d77b0ca9ee3e364dd2373cbc943510f8d6b557dc49a5e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EC8 10032 bytes