Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09aa7e1ab39717e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2020-08-02 12:36:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c11b0b6eb386488139cdd3ea1785e389 SHA-1: 71635b2a10325b84911702992adb61359768a3e6 SHA-256: 09aa7e1ab39717e2c61ddacb7b64b5de6f753f6bfeba99c22e81fc7c0f770bba
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, including Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and references to other PDF files, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme.

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=ac%252F+dc+big+balls
    • http://files.archaeospain.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775017/1243620.pdf
    • http://files.qualitycraftedstoragesheds.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695418/2709159.pdf
    • http://files.albertmerolagallery.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710634/rogokajewoj.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/41078692832.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8773/2644/files/96614396628.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5313/7576/files/kuxutirizomifuna.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5797/9304/files/51342618815.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5586/6263/files/kuxebige.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/73121007565.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3474/6790/files/naviralefubapipuluwevapag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7423/8102/files/jomewidisefidarotagu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6341/9815/files/sefatipijifawenademu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/581871399.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5524/2655/files/watixitaki.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_off00005f21.bin
66b60f667590c2779571e192e1c5478cc16f784c738f8686d3858bb22401a94e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F21 5176 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070dd.bin
5f589be9bfd08a2aa7156fc44062b2270413a34458fe304756bd882baff3c19d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70DD 9800 bytes