Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f794a512df4bb171…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2020-08-21 00:09:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1bacd8686c062a8fe3e7a98e65d6015b SHA-1: 082afe6b1885b5b40d4e2add22deab9f96cf2c92 SHA-256: f794a512df4bb171a00cfa9426f3893a179b683e812383ff23e9ae76935e90c3
154 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 a PDF link farm heuristic, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, but one suspicious link to 'files.sunglassfilms.com'. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body contains text related to 'epinephrine injection msds sheet' and the authoring application, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious links.

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=epinephrine+injection+msds+sheet
    • http://files.sunglassfilms.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857494/likid-fuzulomazuzo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9606/3652/files/vodelirabev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6790/8004/files/alphabet_lettering_practice_sheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8421/8532/files/9011680652.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5405/6092/files/xozokili.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6533/5190/files/najumubatojowowiri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5442/2423/files/5684584007.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3618/0634/files/dingbats_app_level_2_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/4579/8307/files/dirulesewixiwul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2303/1720/files/metabolismo_del_etanol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/73896470487.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7877/9047/files/57501011741.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9700/5981/files/currency_trading_dummies.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006a55.bin
58a9276aba0b7830ce93b5d522dfbfa00d6d7a2a9b010ff4163bf689027c00b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A55 4892 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ac1.bin
e19017dfb2b8668bb9bbb6348c9d94c0cdfb309bb6c7a62fddf60c3f700cfadf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AC1 10200 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009d8d.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D8D 4324 bytes