Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0204b0dccdcd75ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-21 03:10:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f4dc6db6be2a4d6a7a7fe8b99ddfd1a5 SHA-1: e560c1309d126289f9c589d4ab9eefeb3f4bf9e2 SHA-256: 0204b0dccdcd75efe8a1ee1acf52353c41379576f22dc08256644c40b5ec2597
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it's a primary lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a potential link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=android+pie+developer+options+background+check
    • http://files.bfmimpactcenter.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740445/123be.pdf
    • http://files.echadmacfam.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969408/01ca7149433615.pdf
    • http://vigaru.modernartphotograph.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636725/letakesawan.pdf
    • http://xiguza.indiajoneseatery.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969600/3960996.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8524/2276/files/61617306084.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4518/0824/files/batosijipapuwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4591/0678/files/38581950666.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2907/5867/files/7708781873.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7442/8827/files/37990626779.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/9549/5590/files/ca_foundation_syllabus_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1189/9545/files/56212986268.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1859/8053/files/cfa_level_1_time_value_of_money_practice_questions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1335/5166/files/rs3_99_divination_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1309/5067/files/malloc_calloc_realloc_free_in_c_with_example.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_off00006ec9.bin
2b8a5eefd8bdb979686b55e3a197e134cd3914d305e075b30fe76fe32b6dce3c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EC9 5588 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000081bb.bin
b879b1a8b1667af38cb8513995a69b6db21ff6a4ed1bf6baa07d2635924b1278
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81BB 9780 bytes