Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f809207e1c42a869…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-09-12 08:36:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d92c5f129782f33105c9a45be593e186 SHA-1: 6cac91e5d46d3e7a1e4958d1561d0267cb032445 SHA-256: f809207e1c42a869016ea2032347e24d47406cd7faef9f7f019662e495486cbe
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=geographical+information+system+software', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Geographical information system software' and the tool 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.club/wix?keyword=geographical+information+system+software
    • http://files.sanctuaries.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856443/jebegesogitesol.pdf
    • http://poremo.trulytied.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406557/rukiwek-nebufe-ledode.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8588/1759/files/complex_sentence_practice_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9806/2501/files/33753074398.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6934/0822/files/69813332874.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0994f9_998b6e41f6254780a4967667eebe7bae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87a178_e37e59ba1bac4c7582abdf7c6f908c63.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c618e9_562accc01f8c45ce96aa31dde14732e6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7836c9_bbd2cdba109a4609a31d110173edb569.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b98abb_364798bb22054377b3b3c6f5e5896591.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5725/8395/files/xebokeditegepib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7210/2308/files/gajexizepenawalu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/ginowojero.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/8276/1628/files/google_photos_backup_stuck_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4130/8319/files/focus_group_study_guideline.pdf
    • https://www.cancer.gov/coronavirus
    • 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_off0000623d.bin
6914adc7ce651bdd824f97e8b4c8435cb17687b2627d06feaeb4ec5e255bc042
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x623D 5656 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000756e.bin
ef38ff523e5629243cc36253dd393f7c637b60a8b3bc12428bb217238fa7497c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x756E 10764 bytes