Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea4da9693cfa99cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-06 11:30:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cf5c2566252db8b3ace9c08fe0fcba7e SHA-1: 90cd33ca3b03b62b92580f1797aaa99ba8fe35fc SHA-256: ea4da9693cfa99cb2bcd214154cee65f2a25fc49202d8c00c97f62b49036da78
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 used to distribute further malware. The document body, though obfuscated, contains the text 'Brain on fire pdf free download' and the malicious URL, indicating a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The presence of numerous other links to Shopify-hosted PDFs suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to increase visibility.

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=brain+on+fire+pdf+free+download
    • http://files.saraandreahoffman.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814219/5357b82c4.pdf
    • http://files.manaskalar.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406140/3788150.pdf
    • http://tiwida.countrychic.shop/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384284/sawafadedologazovun.pdf
    • http://files.pabigfootcampingadventure.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740329/3365822.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6071/4904/files/90984032347.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0716/5095/files/entrepreneurship_and_intrapreneurship.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7400/0798/files/83024124926.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2925/8649/files/pikima.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7545/2569/files/loxozomumeluj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8787/9587/files/nerotozokuwuga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4245/5197/files/18606767214.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2965/9797/files/psychosocial_development_theory.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4386/3198/files/46395621652.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9387/6118/files/zufogob.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_off000061c6.bin
909e53f8dc87a74432215b8c2114ea133d5e858d5a08b13117e03b75c11cdcb1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61C6 4996 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072e9.bin
a858959bd31a02b9a8117408348e7ab5bf90eb4e4b97f0a170f1c4ece1fe860f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72E9 10140 bytes