Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21c5e0feda47d901…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-09-02 02:27:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 22fa0caa125976d68d3dd4c4af389c7e SHA-1: 5b798430aa9987426719dac23fdde39a6fee180b SHA-256: 21c5e0feda47d90146a005a3d57ce2b111c27c792f23dd3ae3c7b2f46ef402be
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=artist+trading+cards+template', which is also listed as a malicious redirector. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting the user to a potentially harmful external site.

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.me/wix?keyword=artist+trading+cards+template
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6116da_fae134c109d7436594b099fdb98a26eb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/82e28d_3bbfc4c9af3b412ab314aaa1e8a79ec6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a86d68_83af7c30cdc842fa96127c7d8acc7169.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8831/3510/files/algebra_1_practice_test_2_booklet_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9112/2584/files/6403068822.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7852/4832/files/44182370671.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1511/6696/files/9931479426.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5131/0488/files/ravdi_rathore_full_movie.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0908/9447/files/datefewixi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/17524121831.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/370b54_83c7ba79c01d4e4ab39697f7dce2ed0b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c8a981_5ae8797daa9546b095b4ac0b050385ff.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_off00006054.bin
7eda92ab888c6bdebf36ef6774ad66c1daa84f4719c3ae557efd7d7e8b81f36e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6054 5380 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000728d.bin
c34e5cd1b15a93846b52076d5bd178b67e90d3bc15765fb610cc85b7b6629e8a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x728D 10164 bytes