Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e81234cae135bf64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-19 03:10:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d7e3c890f8c862ea8e8a04af19e93dcd SHA-1: 8f3f4a8ebbac450535da3d1a6d98c8d0186a920c SHA-256: e81234cae135bf6481baea48ffe449782a6c8d84f32d7747a31e981991b1a5eb
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely intended to lead the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Trasformazione isoterma formule' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous links to shopify.com PDFs, while many are benign, indicates a link farm strategy. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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/pify?keyword=trasformazione+isoterma+formule
    • http://files.littlelunchlove.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437701/sibewoguve_fagetewe_xopop_xinogoxokevo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4633/7693/files/veginozuseduz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4189/1238/files/zajabomogitezi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5329/2440/files/25402543568.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6411/4852/files/32844768305.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5654/5433/files/fha_guidelines_on_departing_residence_rental_income.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9160/7190/files/malayalam_kavitha_aswamedham_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3166/4552/files/27625308739.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7757/4562/files/pradhan_mantri_awas_yojana_form_download_rural.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/rikujolam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7764/1116/files/rearrange_pages_in_adobe_reader_xi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/91290605672.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_off00006466.bin
8b461068ba6c043f790b5aeff8746f639699800b582193c37bc2dcb9b67565c9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6466 4912 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007504.bin
5613f53661556cacb7d1acc98f4d874791459323dbd23ce9f614a7539891b4bd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7504 12096 bytes