Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd416c76f95d081f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-08-20 10:49:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ed23dafaf90a415c90d51358e19dc6e3 SHA-1: a1e8b9c84a5388a9e1a1fb7dd369c089bf3030e2 SHA-256: fd416c76f95d081fdc82b11243cb5afada19dc57719f4d123dd2265e4bcd5f07
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.com, but one suspicious link to 'files.debrarushfeldt.com'. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to this malicious site.

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=atrial+fibrillation+acls+guidelines
    • http://files.debrarushfeldt.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775126/8177717.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9973/2635/files/70147015836.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6459/8434/files/make_bookmark_in_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2303/1720/files/fefigubugovejupitopolutal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4677/2646/files/xegozoxefawusotasuwuzide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3789/1477/files/focus_on_high_school_chemistry_student_textbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9018/2297/files/xojogelijalulosaderara.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5670/9273/files/57007621961.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3550/8387/files/95479478874.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3057/6278/files/rofeziridexifakuxep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4357/0343/files/77967503931.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5331/7272/files/ziziniwosijiminip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5843/8037/files/circumference_of_a_circle_worksheets_grade_8.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_off00007a56.bin
6adb44cffb8ba677c2fcb952999281f03e9b55a1e98a8b4ad89d8da1e0ab053a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A56 5316 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008c6c.bin
b485ea08a9e97e7a610f0d4014e53e516aafaed3e45f7b0a01402e06f1b23fa5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C6C 9812 bytes