Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2223f2d9c4a0938d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-20 00:51:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e748843608c59808118ff437d33473af SHA-1: acd46bc3f6a4629f3cda49cdbb001b76c9e4038c SHA-256: 2223f2d9c4a0938da6a7d134d5a277107a0f25d225f76175c30345f67a665f8e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it's intended to be clicked. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a potential link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to obscure the malicious destination. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=android+studio+emulator+portable
    • http://files.twistedit.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776206/9b477e0.pdf
    • http://deneza.swissalpineacademy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738531/8983917.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2630/9543/files/high_school_chemistry_textbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5965/8398/files/93776383253.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6830/1212/files/munuwefisuruv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5688/2086/files/vapour_adsorption_refrigeration_system.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9656/4131/files/6564739016.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9818/6652/files/birkdale_prep_school_uniform.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1594/6911/files/90536266142.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/niwaragevutaxesidep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3858/8573/files/ncert_biology_notes_class_12_free_download.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_off00006478.bin
ceecca6d41c46825f37e56f51c6bc07095505d4612114126d2f7e799f979376f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6478 5236 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000761b.bin
edab81853b2f81c07b3566f814f3b34fda039105593e495dc44e7eec09c20eb4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x761B 10572 bytes