Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d7da66d4295e240…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.3 KB Created: 2020-08-25 14:43:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0b0a4bd2bc00120157f9891150e64656 SHA-1: 514fecc163518b7c5c9ca86d7e0db2802d3fa20d SHA-256: 1d7da66d4295e2400a6b98af04fdbd373505f41589b4bbb59a13a6807bbbf9d1
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical URL redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.com). This indicates a phishing or scam attempt where the user is lured to click a link under the guise of downloading a PDF. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector is sufficient evidence of malicious intent.

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=the+apocryphal+gospels+texts+and+translations+pdf
    • http://files.lulabellestyle.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406391/3756593.pdf
    • http://giwebik.sweetthingscoleshill.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607131/2599804.pdf
    • http://files.delloewenthalphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437806/6574307.pdf
    • http://mewebes.csroyalty.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680835/17a1f94.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3842/5766/files/97810948694.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/1293/9929/files/zijigakenewuwirobidug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4287/4278/files/metajemofo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9981/4040/files/lusuzotisobuxupinevegima.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4496/1442/files/calisthenics_programme_debutant.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8947/7278/files/topanadesigaguxuvogabuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9358/0189/files/webexapakoboxujofav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5013/1878/files/sifizowejumusovanoko.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/1293/9929

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008b35.bin
6b315e9b2cd4dafa41de15bbef83cb93d762c8fa5d0973483ce8aed0e51a1c2f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B35 5536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009e0f.bin
1dd8e52dbe80d6a85a173205ebbeb2faec1728413d803ed400bbd209d513572f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E0F 9968 bytes