Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f176eae751451fd2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-21 12:26:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1c70011795f3d1803ca9fe11ff30f643 SHA-1: e7b1be07510be82f0d3a615b60af9f8614793c49 SHA-256: f176eae751451fd2c84d8acf0eea58a612934ef0cb80b5a1126c9def6a505b0a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. This heuristic, combined with the ML classifier flagging the document as malicious, strongly suggests a phishing or malware delivery attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the same redirector URL and a benign-looking Shopify URL, likely part of a link farm to improve search engine visibility 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.com/pify?keyword=twinkle+twinkle+little+star+piano+sheets
    • http://files.coastalsilviculturecommittee.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857540/renavote-ganegenizosi.pdf
    • http://files.nowforyoga.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407369/aac739e2d9d32.pdf
    • http://jixujel.africaspectrum.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606346/5005215.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/6167/0051/files/joindre_facebook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9784/7976/files/diploma_standard_strength_of_materials_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6540/8662/files/88014693892.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/9170/6263/files/unreconciled_transaction_report_xero.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0744/2072/files/child_hd_images_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8176/0935/files/achilles_tendinopathy_nhs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2556/3801/files/betetumowinubipuguwib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5689/7947/files/nice_wallpapers_for_android_mobile.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5098/2821/files/53014780287.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6119/8500/files/tulinegipuzigi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/29878061118.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_off000061a5.bin
8624cc881bb3333b30cd956ef7bdccb86b9cd53f2b0f11df13bf917983855648
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61A5 5012 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072bb.bin
2328b7fdb8c7a2d3e5b9139acf1580d078768c57f47d9a2f3ba7671de3b188ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72BB 10616 bytes