Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 207f49262476956f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-29 14:21:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0c0160bb6a1c12ac2ed57e1195545cca SHA-1: 118189ba77cfee7db653ed536629319762f31009 SHA-256: 207f49262476956fed7e99170cd21aa2e75fb5dfa81c87d2296a5b9711c26f4d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous benign-looking Shopify URLs, but also includes a critical link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though malformed, contains text suggesting it is a 'Sewart user manual', which is likely a lure to encourage clicks on the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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/wix?keyword=sewart+user+manual
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8657/7828/files/complete_list_of_adjectives.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2023/0564/files/bokures.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4907/4336/files/jopubomoxakezawuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8271/9127/files/rudul.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0682b95916174ea4b950de16599f2051.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_96ca8690fda74c27bbbcaf388d325fc6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3551/7337/files/laboratory_manual_for_physical_geolo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4960/7590/files/94632442596.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_00b3841e60a445598df8d3c5c2635e84.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b009da7b176544e0ae42b3d0e333aa29.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3020d7d9c3fa4affaa29f456dc8a2463.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_838e6c35c7ab48cb99478704e6ef112e.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_off000063a6.bin
ac1eb0ed044bbb2ec723ff6a24839e709f998d3862872e131d770a7cff2ca8d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63A6 5028 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074b3.bin
acda5363d9c0551f9893b92b6844fe52292660257ada5fa9d517eb17c109be17
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74B3 10208 bytes