Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11c48d7a270114f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.8 KB Created: 2020-08-24 20:20:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ba6a86a5ee01e1a0c403fb1121732404 SHA-1: 6ddfdfecec2083653c5aceab62ff34c31ce0560f SHA-256: 11c48d7a270114f7a43b592382c1097c2a36123694da1d443a4a8b681e1160bf
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and a keyword suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve SEO for the malicious redirector.

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=mri+glioblastoma+multiforme
    • http://files.frankysmusicproduction.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874134/wowin-jodaziwimumod-rorevirojawo.pdf
    • http://figenipe.ddjohnsonassociatesllc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814579/1931964.pdf
    • http://files.reavesinsagency.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131860378/lavakiv.pdf
    • http://files.ladymaeimpressions.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379434/ba398.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/38684703775.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3246/0960/files/28422511336.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9446/6969/files/concurrence_monopolistique.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2060/6885/files/wonelupisijoro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5961/8716/files/jeffrey_archer_heads_you_win_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5497/3606/files/central_nervous_system_physical_examination.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4407/7722/files/gomefoxijurire.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/magobusiriwolozun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6331/1513/files/can_you_annotate_a_in_onenote.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_off0000a89d.bin
b026430363bfc367ebbc3f85481913e4e9d75794c044c7b8efe07834d49acaae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA89D 5232 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ba5b.bin
d33138a63f265c8d36b707e15b245fe506136c75bad1ef79b82f4b48b5f1742f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA5B 10480 bytes