Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed93cdae3d4d8a92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.5 KB Created: 2020-08-29 16:07:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 11aba6634fb0479c7e9bc195bd3c00a3 SHA-1: 070828b1a0ed0e59514cced04d9bf4cdad863d20 SHA-256: ed93cdae3d4d8a9200da9b490239a6471410efc751d2d069ae18cd0c2a0cd8e0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a link farm. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=tribute+to+the+victims+vampyr, which is likely used to lure victims. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links point to a delivery mechanism for malicious content.

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/wix?keyword=tribute+to+the+victims+vampyr
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0fd2484c14884def85a5fb0ec61fbfc7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_685f752c2e35491fab12d5c193624096.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1e4819_27e1058d22354b9cb6ab6f2551a17cfc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9160/7190/files/zelizu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5344/0414/files/vajifuzezunebulojijugi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8180/8549/files/15745481909.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5327/6574/files/learning_german_language_ebook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6176/2456/files/28972115952.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0874/3834/files/fallout_4_sex_change.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5716/8027/files/nukunawepekaj.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c8d3306c2b824d00b2be3f4974d08ef9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f233e7da2c0f4303a7fefed87be8e8ff.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_off00015024.bin
3aab9a6ebec1375fc812ddb5179287af1a63a43a72b0a62e23e75fb189bd76eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15024 5392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001625d.bin
898e98128306c15dc91b01f71f3f25c351bc022b734a352845de6a77dec57ccc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1625D 10260 bytes