Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01e1ca7d0d1d465b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.4 KB Created: 2020-08-15 17:59:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 046dec4496b6f5e42f03136b2979245d SHA-1: b3e514adc647d6a7a576dd52d90df660a8212de3 SHA-256: 01e1ca7d0d1d465b7458b0a2d8734d0c655824177aee508cbf497fb9e491c7a6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting PDF files, likely as part of an SEO link farm. One prominent link, however, directs to 'ttraff.com', identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious activity as educational content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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/wb?keyword=measure%20acute%20and%20obtuse%20angles%20worksheet
    • http://kaxalep.strozzimeowvellous.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/liliganok.pdf
    • http://files.mblovesbooks.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164372/lakilozadudesow-nepuzibu-budetimofajimos-pexefawedalo.pdf
    • http://files.iemproject.nl/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814106/f5d4c1d1219647.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4967/2091/files/caterpillar_3516_parts_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8283/2280/files/puwekezitufemibuko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1478/2103/files/pologelisadimewerekirip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6180/4198/files/govubifitipijegali.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8797/0975/files/mavavirufisusetiribu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2943/8370/files/58830863323.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4931/2666/files/38340544731.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/2450/2171/files/scentsy_catalogue_fall_2015.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7006/2754/files/36513510022.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8600/2838/files/8_ball_pool_pc_game.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/rerivavegexem.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005473.bin
735cab8d9b2bd0fcaf87c4127eae7fd8d03ab6040e3b6ee5b5e4e6c342b792d5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5473 5500 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000672b.bin
1beb405152fd77a908940369e29eef6cbe6e43d65ef7920d05dac41a0fe32188
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x672B 9852 bytes