Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c7ae49361e1391d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-25 17:50:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 16647dfd1a08a390638a1b299b572540 SHA-1: c71670b46a6c9c1c34069240fb31ba799b8d6d8d SHA-256: 1c7ae49361e1391d5b68ec0c97ffd82bf99f9a05cf21b777b8c16cb9f112e106
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link farm pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=differentiation+questions+and+answers+for+class+11. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the intended lure. The presence of numerous other links hosted on cdn.shopify.com and other domains, as identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic, further supports the attack pattern of a link farm.

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=differentiation+questions+and+answers+for+class+11
    • http://files.abqyav.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383949/2015564.pdf
    • http://files.thewaveindustries.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398094/15d130eb16.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9725/0210/files/jewijenobazo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5797/1362/files/93917692466.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7862/2111/files/gewalowovisilude.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7665/8087/files/35231785955.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3279/5541/files/opencv_c_tutorial_linux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6578/6006/files/45425677753.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7070/9142/files/dazunawizipepolebiwerom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/4395/0490/files/tafopiluguz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7003/6904/files/jawuxejasenosotisi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9754/7157/files/54792635601.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_off0000609b.bin
3d04aad2266d3c7f26b04e5501a3cabe75a2d473446b96c09794917b4a025a70
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x609B 5284 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072b9.bin
b2f9fbe61d0f09cd4a48d99e30a6ab4955cac5f05bfe15c5e537d68ef8cc68bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72B9 14316 bytes