Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2117fa01d8cc4a59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.2 KB Created: 2020-08-22 12:12:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2e67fba6ea3741e704ef6f8d23f7b9c3 SHA-1: cf6cdea1f214a7d33a794f6effc0057c30a463f3 SHA-256: 2117fa01d8cc4a595d59ffe6bacdad86f2589bfb8422e7c3ad56e539420c04d6
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains numerous embedded links. One critical heuristic identified a PDF redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.cc', which is known malicious infrastructure. The document also features a link farm of 28 PDF files hosted on Shopify, likely to obscure the true destination. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to click on these links, which likely lead to a malicious payload or phishing page.

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=label+the+human+brain+worksheet
    • http://files.monroeyouthcommission.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453539/8124895.pdf
    • http://files.sisterspiritwomensharingspirituality.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815154/58853863.pdf
    • http://files.madmanadvertising.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453645/vexidiribipelejuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/7030/4935/files/adivasi_song_2018_video.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8855/2870/files/1991_ford_f150_xlt_lariat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1614/2497/files/funaliv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0196/9820/files/hallelujah_cohen_emerson.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5817/5906/files/maps_in_c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4986/0765/files/vulotojawiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6513/0660/files/pememuxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7956/5465/files/ajax_request_download_file.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3708/2271/files/siledov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/27622062760.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9276/3039/files/nusaxonilomopo.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_off00005c0d.bin
040eda7c3b3305a6d2a9a017ee7554985a9b9790f075a63345e8bc99db4e70d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C0D 5160 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d88.bin
4c9273aaa3700cf3bd866ae5d410a4a91e39e39fc254c0ad20f33cf62a079375
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D88 10132 bytes