Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec9ecf602b7f645c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.5 KB Created: 2020-08-31 00:45:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2e224985e8891edeec5fccec9bf46722 SHA-1: 5868f61be5b263196f1fe4e7f45f852370de572a SHA-256: ec9ecf602b7f645c027461e8a7b3f1bbc23e7236d57263c2c993d0abe6cf161a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at `https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=galanz+user+manual`. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. This suggests the document is designed to trick users into visiting malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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/wix?keyword=galanz+user+manual
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d3e1e33ee8e147dd8f8349ff164afa72.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ed537_beb7fab445bc45f6a4d5ecf24b0f1481.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce14f3_2bc5659c438b4bbf9dc761648b7269e7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ba3095_a647e7c7c15a4da08429b63d94516e08.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7ff653_4c1579dc9ec74e02b2b7fc81d2c7c12a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6092/7393/files/tatadukisabakes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5382/5694/files/factorio_solar_panel_blueprint.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6498/1664/files/ideology_of_pakistan_in_urdu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5689/0013/files/bifiludotebelivitan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8421/0583/files/mibijasofadavewuvo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/16556170446.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5989/4689/files/38731573004.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6341/8784/files/banchory_primary_school_uniform.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_off00005435.bin
973d8a6b4ade4ad8c9b3207e3d6cb1f1d44ddda55e62a824165be73c07fd159f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5435 4912 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000064dd.bin
af78af3558a5b4fd11a872ab89875d7fac60e97731b468326c9a681d55254bd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64DD 10676 bytes