Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c33e0cdd3f34f3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.1 KB Created: 2020-08-20 18:41:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d035de3a1b8eac52b8248e888f3d60ba SHA-1: 9e8e72476900d6f2c1b2819e71a74b59bf3ad622 SHA-256: 1c33e0cdd3f34f3fa544bfde89ba7c6de0aabf077232928e2d09c1a2fd76f2d9
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link to `ttraff.com`, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body text mentions 'Carer allowance form over 16', suggesting a social engineering lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to distribute traffic to the malicious redirector.

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=carer+allowance+form+over+16
    • http://files.mrmcgintysmonarchs.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302993/6340693.pdf
    • http://sapavaba.faubionchoir.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776811/27f4e86.pdf
    • http://digekiw.mtadamshoney.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398140/mepini.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8856/6677/files/bureaucratic_organizational_structure.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6621/2003/files/85318323701.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vijufetibumumupaxewaromuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7730/4481/files/unofficial_world_champion_lol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7732/8278/files/wafijexuzumuvalisu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0761/4882/files/artemisia_dracunculus_essential_oil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2650/5128/files/62337769697.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0639/3496/files/86644273403.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4087/4408/files/22210567618.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/amenaza_de_aborto_ginecologia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4864/0418/files/dozidivipujet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0742/6216/files/tifufatidefosejaxofu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1335/6189/files/voruxijatarele.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_off00004c3c.bin
811e4e5f37c82e9503a31ec56db65e81a6752dfafd7cecf3a9eb8666560bee8e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4C3C 5112 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005dad.bin
26073577b4bbcd20bdeb7d0c7808da98c70df5cb6d34fd7cc09a4d059d983827
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DAD 9964 bytes