Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18a0106cc90bed45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-08-23 10:12:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a171608cc4cf83c85e1b56e6ba770de9 SHA-1: 4e56a745226b175513c0edfd249f070f5ceb0df2 SHA-256: 18a0106cc90bed45e8b40b481774c38a9b79efc50c5b47c2165f758016f0d659
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, ttraff.cc, which is designed to lead users to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a reference to the same redirector URL. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=google+sheets+conditional+formatting+range
    • http://detero.unikzhi.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437402/4154450.pdf
    • http://wadajata.vocalupholstery.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303382/xadakusobujujozezita.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2122/2567/files/aeriforme_significado_en_espaol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8321/8588/files/championnat_du_monde_athltisme_2020_programme.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1912/4382/files/kogevulefomixuwefi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3293/5574/files/48963922984.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6772/8279/files/fumoto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4327/4402/files/salebelogijiki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5795/4467/files/85305053395.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7177/4615/files/60115843455.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4486/4149/files/27234378427.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_off000073de.bin
4d8f0878983a13b41026c811f9936bf41c85c8ebb165adf771d8c0e19e90dc8e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73DE 5468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008644.bin
04c916a9b6bba2846001f1af2f27a08c906cf1a8bd4a0bc7ee665ce316a5eb36
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8644 10712 bytes