Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1dad166583680ed9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-09 18:13:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c75233f0315157c74f77d070a8e2bb41 SHA-1: 794f3604d70e4da4f94f55980718ac0ecd349e4a SHA-256: 1dad166583680ed983292a70998f0317170e4b12f2eeb995dc62b4cea421c91a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous PDF files hosted on Shopify and other domains, with one primary redirector URL. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK indicates that the primary URL, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=swimming+techniques+pictures+pdf, leads to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same redirector URL and several other PDF links, suggesting a lure to download further content or navigate to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=swimming+techniques+pictures+pdf
    • http://files.katharoscatering2go.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739837/vebonumodore.pdf
    • http://files.karenbalonart.studio/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163733/watasuvowevekawofexe.pdf
    • http://files.cezannelandscapediscovery.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856133/6706341.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/2127/5033/files/class_11_biology_chapter_5_notes_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3825/0910/files/luxaire_furnace_parts.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nefodegaxinavikiva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/93616534700.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1335/6189/files/yamaha_motorcycle_manuals.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8602/8708/files/98330982422.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5597/1492/files/70802210900.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3849/8206/files/13213945096.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8832/1438/files/73198390152.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2123/6381/files/lopujagofigaxiza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2299/1007/files/zerutezefivuvopupiwopaju.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_off00006966.bin
abe6b81a997615283f34d1f09304270ec2d3747e3386f387eb76aa3c21bb848e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6966 5648 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c8d.bin
b4096391f01e0c88324a92978c22c2f4a05e594f323a291bf60cb61e3a459c64
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C8D 10060 bytes