Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fda482fe5baf5d3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-08-20 22:53:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1534682c416f63a547974c43ecde4458 SHA-1: 62f62976357437ee388e26d615045f1613bd2e89 SHA-256: fda482fe5baf5d3fa2442926d1774b707e6d576c02506d93053fab48f0a51d9c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely used to funnel victims to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and appears to be a lure related to 'linedance stepsheet day of the dead'. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility of the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector is the embedded malicious URL.

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=linedance+stepsheet+day+of+the+dead
    • http://files.sgsquishies.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381428/1684325.pdf
    • http://files.mccullycomfort.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739776/ririvitin-mifojugifew-rupewefi.pdf
    • http://files.jerryday.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856815/nipatuvinemupuvufumo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5107/3174/files/pexinoduse.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4436/3678/files/fipikapogagejomi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0167/5939/files/zaxebemaga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1347/9320/files/toxokag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8051/5738/files/baby_elephant_walking_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1396/2919/files/business_plus_cambridge_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8375/0821/files/biodegradable_and_nonbiodegradable_waste_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0166/6969/files/62685441606.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5359/6310/files/jirezepizowipupu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3151/7605/files/xokilaloxonuzibekutukexaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3510/6203/files/jojugusaburaxebisid.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/fi

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005f98.bin
f9dfc0fc66dea2d788faf3b5862b2ecfff12e25d8c67807536493cfb51d13957
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F98 5160 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000712b.bin
834c45d3b2b9df30fc64aaf7c725ebe510f93b5a2fc7ece57fdab18e964ee726
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x712B 15568 bytes