Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 162d24a38a41fe75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.7 KB Created: 2020-08-15 08:43:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e17395d0af14f24c8fb6df92d8d11baf SHA-1: a6f2ef49edb5efc71a1842040698b198d681d558 SHA-256: 162d24a38a41fe75433b231ff3bf652f04b61fbcf2c60cf40bbac08446f82b1c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, traff.cc, which is likely part of a phishing or scam campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is an 'order form' and includes the malicious URL. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm used to distribute malicious content or for SEO manipulation.

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=affy+tapple+order+form
    • http://files.ps195magnet.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739027/70851e18.pdf
    • http://files.cmgaesthetics.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712096/5658648.pdf
    • http://files.moesplace.us/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738875/zutizak-wikuriku.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8898/6787/files/best_magazine_design.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5934/5573/files/xigafuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/42709889339.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/atomic_alarm_clock.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1085/0979/files/66811432790.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0455/5482/7429/files/most_common_english_phrases.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3509/7245/files/21506178733.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8535/7463/files/nier_automata_mods.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7386/3842/files/92255939575.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_off000047d1.bin
0abe2ef9d04c38bfbaf8e9862306c748c252454197deeb0957541b2b9674729c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47D1 5100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005918.bin
38d2950ca1ec9e4bb170182563a16961f12d12c9b14ef82ecc4c45a12b3c6604
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5918 9824 bytes