Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 220051022508aac1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-08-07 19:13:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ce2091e337e2cfdba2de09676ef5abbf SHA-1: 2090737b6d6b4b563a1f6c970338bcf96dc79769 SHA-256: 220051022508aac193b869bdce1c6a58d79c8c09cb64e7a5b13d6275b9661746
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com', which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Ansys workbench 15 tutorial pdf', indicating a lure to attract users searching for such content.

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=ansys+workbench+15+tutorial+pdf
    • http://files.thesyncretistrealm.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682124/d2880390ec.pdf
    • http://files.mayamuir.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437385/nixexiso.pdf
    • http://files.foolsandhorses.ca/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606222/zusamewiladexemope.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4015/2479/files/buretadaxapop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5441/4494/files/xipuwol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5847/0816/files/nupafuwerogob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7217/5784/files/fujuroboxobozujake.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4746/1788/files/tutitosiveti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5306/3063/files/refapoxukiruxomine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3280/4504/files/71109545296.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2742/3654/files/20826385545.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9998/7873/files/questoes_de_analise_combinatoria_e_probabilidade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0821/1619/files/89453100227.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_off000078f2.bin
ee3546775f92ecd836cce296429aa33cefeb93de522fdbc96d8e136235d677ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78F2 5804 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008cda.bin
f433f660cd443cc098c73e261c28fe03f1324a4291add5c7a3b8bb0cbfb88351
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CDA 10352 bytes