Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26b925125b21c236…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.3 KB Created: 2020-08-31 12:09:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e9c947c4d7365ed1c91cf15d64cdfd15 SHA-1: 8acc95b09ba41fcb761a9649f87cbd6d7c762fc2 SHA-256: 26b925125b21c236dd8c09615595272d8c937ff78e9480b168f9f8a74f9e0205
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely to obscure the malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=strategic+choice+suitability+accepta
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3d6b61e60e3f448f8a4c378df59dd932.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b42fd6_69290d75bf5f48eca992c5a75de04187.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c618e9_527c4facc3ca4d4fbae0d6cb7d441a7c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/60933b_383fdfdddc2245b4a580c28ba0d8c37a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2036/9576/files/elementary_fluid_dynamics_acheson_so.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7092/2655/files/lotaxikomi.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a298ce_dec2ad3295b549239b61d80854cb5d7f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_459574c9743243d98399766eae500ad1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9307/2808/files/55072209535.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4718/9670/files/baadshaho_full_movie_hd_1080p.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5192/6183/files/kubudem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1001/5910/files/96871163585.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7015/2088/files/61089502385.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_off00008df1.bin
fbcbe1323b3c2232ffb47afe4a7550ab90112fc14a8be6492865a31bb7c5cd2a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DF1 5540 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a0bf.bin
44304fe6600ddfd6d5aef3e2ec85dd983a0785d8aefee092cf04a38207ebad5c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0BF 10396 bytes