Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e71003fff957e0e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.4 KB Created: 2020-08-05 16:16:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ea1f4b73670864df2bdd40f8ac9081c5 SHA-1: 892f84be4a33fa4f6a22ef03c4b294b608b4ce37 SHA-256: e71003fff957e0e7c4069ede5f5ae121a19ac2a65dbf73eef895155f3f75d8a2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is designed to lure users into clicking on it. The document body text and embedded URLs suggest a social engineering tactic to trick users into believing they are joining PDF files online. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary IOC is the malicious redirector URL.

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=join+pdf+files+online
    • http://files.kpugaming.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813639/gepitomis.pdf
    • http://files.herblowe.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776720/domibowitijopeg-vapenonuvesebob-nedanirafuz-vimek.pdf
    • http://files.chiyoungkim.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739850/2604059.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0179/1132/files/40455073757.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5032/0540/files/xidaduzosutuzizipuda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5926/3141/files/xatowowosesifivu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6997/2384/files/60583439202.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2617/7438/files/maplestory_link_skill_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9528/4130/files/jisononuzeluku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5090/1402/files/86037084989.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4059/5352/files/rerakozezi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1022/0447/files/so_high_john_legend.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3700/7778/files/panufimifajefuvu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6104/1559/files/japanese_fat_snake.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_off000043e7.bin
922e39f3e251cd014d287de11fdfc7acd71d04d9daba4245ac2b7e0b052a3148
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x43E7 4716 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005410.bin
2ec0974c60df6e6070c48608d39f9214050be094e4badc5e242f3c9763ce3bf4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5410 12068 bytes