Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15d3bc9408c17c1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.6 KB Created: 2020-09-03 00:06:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 70cf1c28786e173dab4d8b94b7f0a666 SHA-1: 9d9a8beee4257c5de910796830595b162aae41db SHA-256: 15d3bc9408c17c1f0804081b14a67eb0f8e8d0ed0abd63e71b20c629fc896c1c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be the same redirector. The PDF also contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to benign Shopify URLs, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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/wix?keyword=church+website+templates+wix
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9116/9185/files/5_gallon_water_bottle_pump.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1230/9670/files/reduce_file_size_online_below_150_kb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4227/5479/files/3704109643.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1464/2069/files/fabozimipub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1631/4277/files/filimodorisametozodunas.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a31856_d6b53adc7c204c4f9e75aad5b0e3d790.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8195b199f5f944f8bde9ad8f53cfa088.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/739437_2e0c01add7c7497f8369f5b349d56e77.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3ceeb9_a80fadd300cc4873a5306b376fac276d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9141/7505/files/69157656937.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0470/9797/0838/files/84431005852.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9833/2565/files/86869088076.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3453/2245/files/5001440918.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8911/6836/files/nuvepotakizufij.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_off00008ab6.bin
a734a4c534881de1ff8e9b1e27b1604c875b75c52136733c26d87bf6b8323b14
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AB6 5380 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009ce1.bin
838cb01aa6e72874d51af6b3e99be828ffb7e058bde392b5043cb6237c9d61d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9CE1 11000 bytes