Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1715595cabbb0ec5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.2 KB Created: 2020-07-26 16:49:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c30ccaadec3eb7dae85d9b83b7482266 SHA-1: 57d0c30f976a020bfe91c415705cfca6b7faf5a0 SHA-256: 1715595cabbb0ec5150a788c0e059a2bb9bdc3d5e9294147e245da0e01da50fc
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.com'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links to other PDFs, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to 'Bumblebee toy transformers prime', likely a lure. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to potentially malicious external sites.

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=bumblebee+toy+transformers+prime
    • http://files.coricosmeticsinc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381046/kojitikemexiki_fakus_danakidofa.pdf
    • http://files.kkstechtips.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637190/26ec8b48f71.pdf
    • http://files.yoganurse.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776745/nubumulisopida.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3651/7286/files/tifisopa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0508/3811/files/93346068312.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9735/0554/files/jokogereteg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9826/8065/files/3434308573.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9775/9643/files/74536397564.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2958/4293/files/mofatasavamajoxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9730/6776/files/12528700779.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5180/0981/files/vubuloxuzi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1031/0822/files/rufesusim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6913/6284/files/womoxepa.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00014a01.bin
0b7f4bb4e68108ed60a95300110bb6d4fcbfe5072018ca0f18febbc820dd951f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A01 5704 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00015d96.bin
89421944ab709235d83d508935525b504ac6b44ed4bc76a487aeca0ecf049a5c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D96 5220 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00016f3f.bin
74f1e9b5d26e465e8d47a3546aab84654f26f1daf9f2a4735fb20e8cbe003306
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F3F 10508 bytes