Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f8b4b247d44bda9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.2 KB Created: 2020-08-02 17:39:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 042c04bb19fcd982204a513f97ae9d36 SHA-1: 0dcfbb317190c7e9ae10acf5f5e7b1eb80b9e983 SHA-256: 0f8b4b247d44bda91c6514ed7217d774b28b7431948e15dce380db37a1b28ea6
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one identified as a malicious redirector pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a service manual and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The presence of many external PDF links, some pointing to Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve SEO for malicious content or to host further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=2004+bombardier+outlander+400+service+manual
    • http://files.lcpcomicbook.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437276/mopurukobano.pdf
    • http://files.bulacanhouselot.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382274/4d3b69b76c6db0.pdf
    • http://files.padmasherni.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437306/dirodederuv.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xizujebekox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2308/8290/files/24470451299.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0118/4417/files/92476546300.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/53741046047.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8911/6840/files/31232586354.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8466/7297/files/wopefosevejoxuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7474/0639/files/fuzirosibanefimasiwawi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0751/5558/files/funulapenoke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8545/3728/files/46853587826.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_off0000846b.bin
92cbaf7003728cdda939bdd90274be353a1c9144284819a93e215c21995e5b38
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x846B 5552 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009739.bin
4c8d963b9187545d3d7955a8b3aa32c7cad105e203d2c48b482fed28eb847647
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9739 15616 bytes