Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18af7b3002ccfd61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2020-08-15 12:39:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6365704faa92a59406f628dc065fb83b SHA-1: bc0859d7d37e6ce7489b6143962a00d9247a56b5 SHA-256: 18af7b3002ccfd619f809d9c34e5f11f493c07e664d905d75a9ff2d760d21183
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely used to host further malicious content or phishing pages. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content through a seemingly benign platform. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the conclusion that this PDF is part of a malicious distribution campaign.

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=go+kart+designs+pdf
    • http://files.archestrate.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740457/c9c1861b.pdf
    • http://files.velvetandjutesoaps.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407968/visazibudizir-wixirumami-jakebozav-gafufotebo.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7122/5494/files/37778997051.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5097/5910/files/81056330546.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3178/9721/files/stone_button_minecraft.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8865/0142/files/75938199767.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7005/3784/files/sexurepabapisadosegovader.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/fisebupujavilugux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/ferenap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0521/3854/files/vekax.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_off00005e2d.bin
c74bb30dc26ebe151b7386dd8892df11189591364bd096b00b0019565b26b476
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E2D 5272 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007037.bin
46d89766bddcc19a057fdcab7a68827043d1e1db018697ee426827c3ecac379a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7037 9876 bytes