Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ead983c716ae014a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-07-29 13:19:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: da2487757b20d5dfa5957e286d1b67a2 SHA-1: 93542c20cb017d720055db3064e217ca5978a0c8 SHA-256: ead983c716ae014ada04c12fd7982651c4e13e2d7f088990528eaf4021170366
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.com, which is disguised as a link to a kindergarten phonics book PDF. The PDF also features a link farm with numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, likely for SEO manipulation to increase visibility. 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/pify?keyword=phonic+books+for+kindergarten+pdf
    • http://files.daphnehocakedesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131855992/6732900.pdf
    • http://files.graysong.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739480/8824830.pdf
    • http://files.clevelandburlesque.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738998/piwudip_lizogu_niwufoduzusonuj_zositugolob.pdf
    • http://files.drmrocks.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740012/vejedemiviz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2729/1542/files/maxenarirok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9503/8888/files/negidawabepil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5095/7991/files/26690119234.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/38140624907.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9119/8112/files/9977586088.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/28391359898.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2385/7824/files/60646109963.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3815/4650/files/93951768536.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7749/3146/files/31886947062.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8450/5498/files/xafidurotorijikalede.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7246/3772/files/dabivizikivarikulesulut.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/381

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007786.bin
8a54caeeae191f16b22c07edcb0a984013f11e7bea509cfc3285b15b4eb2a17b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7786 5376 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000089b3.bin
4645e14f70488438fcc0f4a720e621f40a0ea18c9a02ed93ce9701fdb6515973
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x89B3 10260 bytes