Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c2abf70cb176d35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.8 KB Created: 2020-09-03 20:48:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5d97e4e894d14651d33357407493a6f0 SHA-1: e4150a4fb8b5baf3979b7b2053fb30fa2c8524e1 SHA-256: 0c2abf70cb176d35d92d8bbc927dbd3f9e8be34e639535db57c113d1a4ddc927
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to a known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.club'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'Cdc weekly flu activity report' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates a link farm used for SEO poisoning or distributing further malicious content.

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/pify?keyword=cdc+weekly+flu+activity+report
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2681/6932/files/33907742294.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8871/files/wifi_attendance_android_app_source_code.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8231/7975/files/3621613191.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/aaaf79_f8f7972de0e74241bef635c75f2ac142.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bdeb4c_3756f940ddff4e3186a512e81daf8cf3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/21a131_a6f5387d2c314993a9fa0a6c2f3c1ba2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/60933b_069ee385e88b42e69edae66e9b52652c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4352/8609/files/kaxajor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3444/1885/files/uninstall_node._js_mac.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4865/7318/files/33584962959.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_off00009949.bin
7459080e98deaab3b403bc8c8ffcba8f076762f57073e9eab959d7ea2cd19e7a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9949 5196 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ab25.bin
4c23882452ca5945e7e237d60910de3a055fe4f8a1ea27079e5bacf4d87643e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB25 10376 bytes