Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c089e837641a13f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.4 KB Created: 2020-08-19 06:11:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: abfe8286f5eb5e150c6116fe9b6de033 SHA-1: ce076c7eb6bc660beeb7737f46e6c5906b6cb33a SHA-256: 0c089e837641a13f6f3ea844ec9ac8edd7b01ca987f24e4b3c0e15e089fb6e24
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, but one critical link redirects to `ttraff.com`, which is flagged as malicious. This suggests a link farm or redirector tactic to obscure the ultimate malicious destination. 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/pify?keyword=v+groove+guide+wheel+bearings
    • http://files.renaissancetenby.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969717/nelodadoxikov.pdf
    • http://mijixaxo.gabyggonzalez.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856937/dubumunafuve.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5322/7936/files/51052019303.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1389/6352/files/interpretation_of_dreams_in_islam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0574/7095/files/plot_shapefile_in_r.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8206/3777/files/culture_of_animal_cells.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7014/4158/files/73317820601.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8774/9525/files/53638617899.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9656/4131/files/71819434608.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8627/4967/files/joliwukid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8457/1031/files/29283723585.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0842/6147/files/tafev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0416/6297/files/duvefusore.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_off00004a4a.bin
1d39b6b5c699f7cb0896edd6bbb3db65deb65a97137e9e7cb50c704db1da7ab7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A4A 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005c87.bin
e2f05ade1f2a68b1a160eb4fd98df7b3193b1582c68910222626e7a28f68b89d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C87 9564 bytes