Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bda03b6e6ac1410…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-04 04:44:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c73228408facd1c31175b76c1e053f1c SHA-1: 475c52f221d83795e0cbf712038c50a92f882f3e SHA-256: 1bda03b6e6ac1410198240abd70bcd8b0ca7775a46065f8294b6a81d54f93d72
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, 'ttraff.cc', which is used in conjunction with the lure 'basic writing skills pdf download'. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload execution.

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=basic+writing+skills+pdf+download
    • http://xekuwo.claudiapisco.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070872/a4971f1.pdf
    • http://files.highlanddrivepso.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740260/4124265.pdf
    • http://files.travelwithkara.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681556/54977600fb865f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2631/7473/files/vukamigisafufij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6522/1015/files/kuketa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8697/8984/files/745169255.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9448/1823/files/prozac_nation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0978/4482/files/93584756366.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8068/6495/files/berapusifevekemuwaki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/16946396068.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8845/4559/files/divib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7299/4979/files/31947254695.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2503/8498/files/vizazurakobife.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9982/4032/files/givumikekotezazexovuzala.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000061cc.bin
fb79051d2ed4bab270a953c60649be192c804d443c99ffe5da5251a339dbfcf6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61CC 5528 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074c5.bin
76b084beb690e9c9707f37d013fe5056470d95e4a617b3ca1128c211306678bc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74C5 16108 bytes