Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee6a0d941e57d373…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.2 KB Created: 2020-08-26 23:49:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fb8dbc78fdba2eae700ce1b496853b82 SHA-1: 275dc6d8f6354cb27feacbe23ffecd79512ff24f SHA-256: ee6a0d941e57d3730a80d7805f9c2ae1f83850058ebb896520760b7266de33e8
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing for a PDF link farm. One of these URLs, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=polymer+chemistry+hiemenz', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other links to external PDF files hosted on platforms like Shopify. The presence of a malicious redirector suggests an attempt to lead the user to harmful content or further stages of an attack.

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=polymer+chemistry+hiemenz
    • http://pesusit.msdanahamilton.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695569/vozunofizulaf-fisewezol-zesewojexigi-ranozeguliz.pdf
    • http://sawew.100suits.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858540/7274516.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0334/7097/files/dikaxuxowaruxepi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7138/1405/files/cryptography_lab_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0458/1693/8662/files/808nm_500mw_laser_diode_datasheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6289/4485/files/pumurakuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8205/4813/files/autocad_2013_free_trial_full_version.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8271/9127/files/31024177038.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/41732402988.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0854/0324/files/jesunavurorutibubutavog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8297/3346/files/21137431614.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_off000052c0.bin
6b05c954cb31cb6a4bca25930346395b9668b1cedd85db1622904419a05d53b3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x52C0 4984 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006398.bin
936565bfebbe63670c79e36f6e011ac168c014439409375bb9f74e03d1a11caf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6398 9696 bytes