Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2053a83bc3890a20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.8 KB Created: 2020-08-05 09:14:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2fa392546c0ef8450be986fa69e4a745 SHA-1: 6cffa7d5a098857afead46839035512d9aa67222 SHA-256: 2053a83bc3890a20a4267c85778119952f932c3a9d109697337bb0b4fd4806fe
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and numerous other embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or content distribution network used to host malicious or deceptive content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=mandarin+chinese+english+bilingual+visual+dictionary+pdf
    • http://files.sharitavonsikphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739470/892586.pdf
    • http://wovimud.allbrandappliancesrepair.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683014/9c110acc.pdf
    • http://files.apartments-lavanda.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739971/ruwibifitunimiba.pdf
    • http://files.homegrownpets.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409074/835770.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4519/9784/files/23481852464.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8037/5708/files/lepowerorevunisa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2571/8678/files/latudeguledexiweduteroda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6540/8662/files/6554334739.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2883/0632/files/52520726601.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8043/3302/files/58148100869.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7029/1096/files/70852743499.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7754/1791/files/zefeduzoxisazoxafetutejoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2990/5058/files/flight_of_the_bumblebee_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4485/4165/files/temorokizezifowij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0356/6486/files/juwel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2348/3548/files/77955092440.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_off00004ce9.bin
5be3853a82f4440e74fb9c3fb8aeac813c18c31b8e1ba775da6cd5103b9bfe6d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4CE9 5724 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000607a.bin
ae78e0d04a155a1dcf9388018c950053e6e836c86a9a290a0e7836e3973dff62
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x607A 10112 bytes