Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e68f500e82346fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.7 KB Created: 2020-08-16 16:05:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c4bcaadac1e0d63c380399616432d924 SHA-1: f803636120b8267d7585453c52c9a9abd8c23f25 SHA-256: 0e68f500e82346fc8cfe2f814da08324111d3a71c3e18997dbe6111bb799a3f4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure malicious activity. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely the primary malicious destination. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the overall structure points towards a phishing or scam campaign leveraging a link farm to distribute malicious content or redirect users.

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=ancient+rome+map+worksheets
    • http://files.rickiwood.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969695/aaddb0878eb26.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6856/3355/files/minecraft_mega_builds.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3888/4519/files/61521745947.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7480/4126/files/89152211266.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/1261535930.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1389/8403/files/47479748242.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4742/0066/files/29490870593.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7443/7791/files/18424391550.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3631/9639/files/mawojupotojobamejepafego.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7301/0850/files/fulton_daily_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4356/1376/files/wibofa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3249/4751/files/how_to_evolve_nincada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6590/8136/files/brachytherapy_journal.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_off000042d0.bin
61fd35edec0ef2f2bdb7c697ac3816cb0b790661f8921edeec513fc3d6d44288
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x42D0 5284 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000054a2.bin
c1a25852e82c1b467a4a67da787e3d583a5a8506333cbc910c8c0e12bbbcc1e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54A2 9508 bytes