Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdfc3a38dfec5c43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-08 00:29:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ce686cd8c7674a340e45b893f738698f SHA-1: 633fd93212f16b0fbf9772c1c4391c85d73f926f SHA-256: fdfc3a38dfec5c43959bbf7bc81598eefee21445946b81089e2eb1574d5fdcfd
152 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, which points to 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, suggesting an attempt to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, likely for SEO poisoning, further indicating a malicious intent to drive traffic to undesirable sites.

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=inverse+of+a+4x4+matrix+using+cofactors+pdf
    • http://files.iluvmemore.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302815/ea158.pdf
    • http://vikitug.pdsummit.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438641/9788163.pdf
    • http://files.oglefb.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776420/36b02.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/81108552740.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6360/6429/files/how_to_uninstall_technic_launcher.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1731/3176/files/pilorijirowexapuwe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4986/8703/files/jitidawonaxuwojemu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6149/1365/files/dmv_reg_262.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3429/5966/files/85381665566.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6743/9259/files/3_of_9_barcode_font_for.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6656/4507/files/39460240637.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3601/6802/files/38911334004.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3978/4103/files/tetagiviragegoni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3873/5512/files/mizijaperupid.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_off00005fd3.bin
9430d422dec4a4eb04cff41ce51e936c7c8de0344f26ab6dccd6d7dea7adef36
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FD3 5596 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072de.bin
8b3bcc45caa2750ebbe07ba825b7fd0aa64d3235f2af2b9ed0b0c23b7c035b0f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72DE 10116 bytes