Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f86841563c182f1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-19 02:27:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 235689b1fada84beb849643a31963d35 SHA-1: d6efc046c4b509bbd1986709ae3a6aa320142b45 SHA-256: f86841563c182f1e0c95b2737bd746958eebeb56fa6d6eec73a6a5a54cd47a3c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Engineering construction company profile. pdf' and the same malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, which is flagged as a link farm. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be tricking the user into clicking the malicious link within the document.

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=engineering+construction+company+profile.+pdf
    • http://files.misfitcrusaders.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814672/634f8e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8353/0394/files/fojajagatujubibixut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7366/6213/files/7945904408.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1867/3566/files/acertil_bula.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2630/7480/files/78919030700.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3518/0703/files/volipimup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3349/2641/files/fuginukebidufukabe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0849/1673/files/accelerated_learning_techniques_for_students.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5951/9387/files/43055153951.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30547733638.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1826/4469/files/tizibawot.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_off00005ddc.bin
83e358b57756c4d616b9ce7e642e02d046c6df2655c0723b13336737599cc6aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DDC 5568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070c3.bin
dff3b39e3677c5ff468642fbc1abe25249202fd517e1976cf5aaf00687231c0c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70C3 9984 bytes