Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0737aa014977704e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-31 05:07:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 33d45696bb682e8cc6052d5d96b0d100 SHA-1: e70d96a52d4f6192b490c8e3fa3716eda70fbc56 SHA-256: 0737aa014977704ee03e52937085ba6158b6647aaad9a0aef226ce4650d9af89
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.club'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a link to a programming PDF. The presence of numerous other links to Shopify PDFs suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility and lure victims. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.club/wix?keyword=fundamentals+of+computer+programming+c+++pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5348/2137/files/pour_c3_a9diter_le.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2718/5311/files/87900440449.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8127/7348/files/cell_counter_corning_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1311/0951/files/august_2020_current_affairs_upsc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7065/1558/files/amma_rajinama_hd_video_songs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1063/7476/files/68137953791.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7581/4047/files/ferumolime.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5474/3200/files/moxadiwiduzatesuvozirok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/4337/3480/files/simplicity_pattern_measurement_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9694/8382/files/3313922102.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6511/4775/files/35128053028.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7106/9594/files/un_barrage_contre_le_pacifique_gratuit.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fbc83aae333441b5b6cf9f36a3801b96.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/23e9be_3eb5b46599894d9b984aec821e66719e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0acc878a58574c9383fb1351e1197809.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_off00006608.bin
a4bba2ca71b7c5bb46fdbf138622f179b37aab58bbb480a0ce1737f7f466d841
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6608 5432 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000786c.bin
2f7d688312192f7fef3a3bae8c6bf050d68c25751506bc2e97167f888605ab58
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x786C 11864 bytes