Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4b00a3f82bd6fbd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.0 KB Created: 2020-08-21 05:55:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2aaba6b1aaa821c0521b9e745b0d5393 SHA-1: ca750afc197b3df08d4a2bd32b4f5f4ebca8c640 SHA-256: e4b00a3f82bd6fbd935e1312ac9bcf42c49b63e6806294c95f0d533ace14c560
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, disguised as a worksheet. The PDF also features a large number of links to other PDFs hosted on Shopify, likely an attempt to manipulate search engine results for the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure itself points to a link farm for redirection.

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=probability+calculation+worksheet
    • http://files.poshoccasion.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606397/8879559.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5113/0785/files/variance_function_in_r.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2344/5666/files/channel_7_weather_report_video.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8954/2809/files/acoustic_songs_chords.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3281/3473/files/tb_guidelines_2018_kenya.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4541/2261/files/rufafomadulepepopavorev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8296/3361/files/96815417647.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7712/4774/files/logarithmic_equation_examples_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6967/6451/files/jotitu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6271/4780/files/bahadur_shah_zafar_poetry_in_urdu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9448/1821/files/rifezigexisodoto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7485/5846/files/92835310155.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9881/6150/files/73434778121.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6544/2457/files/fepuvofilizugirowe.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_off00007d98.bin
67a5dc93b6c4a84c9e457c12afad9715b3bbd61ac87035815d308f30de65655e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D98 5288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008f98.bin
4ae15086c10763ec56bd3a03fb04b0765862e4110e28aed31f7ad3ea76478167
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F98 10508 bytes