Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f31693b75511bdcf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.9 KB Created: 2020-08-02 18:52:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f0080239ecd4fe1ecede537a7dd7159b SHA-1: d1066b2d268735827208129931fe385cf4091b1e SHA-256: f31693b75511bdcfa84ef9914a5fe9e54dc42c6dde1c3346269d34770564def0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on 'cdn.shopify.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirect URL, suggesting an attempt to lure users to a malicious site. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of further malicious behavior.

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=short+maid+of+honor+speech+examples
    • http://files.whitegardenia.co/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814235/kizonusop.pdf
    • http://files.birddude.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398591/651c343f28ccbdf.pdf
    • http://files.crochetsweetcrochet.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438308/5915890.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9918/4551/files/jitinifamuvumi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/koxumugude.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8565/8280/files/wagivenefipoladij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7116/8931/files/farimimorox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3750/files/60965401688.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8970/5625/files/81337770629.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1376/6296/files/bakugozoda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1703/6198/files/44294508039.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2448/1431/files/40793603246.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0923/6374/files/zewafirazurila.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6135/3371/files/gagogezor.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_off0000a530.bin
caf0fba9f2473be8ed03cf185216bac8fd0fd1c98cc1a2d7a059114258e48b44
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA530 5564 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b7f5.bin
e54ca6931a3671e3fba38519c4ccdc1ee001e717134e881961c83f4c443cbd53
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7F5 10088 bytes