Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27798078b73985f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.5 KB Created: 2020-08-08 00:48:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c6590d4b1d402821b0543ba0cc97f61a SHA-1: 9ad512436795521889bf4072c6d7fefa64f33d13 SHA-256: 27798078b73985f4cf360928e462abb87749849735874e3076b558c4e1783aa1
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting seemingly benign documents, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to lure victims. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=iti+engineering+drawing+syllabus+pdf
    • http://files.human-capital-development.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406258/jakutekajavuwi.pdf
    • http://files.donnacronk.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070113/4801564.pdf
    • http://dawin.lntole.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453540/punis_xemimetekapebi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1024/4260/files/career_opportunities_in_biotechnology_and_drug_development_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0515/5227/files/vocabulary_games_and_activities_for_teachers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8094/9659/files/seziwifalozevutu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6763/7917/files/sokomadigiwinerepododuvo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0510/8636/files/puwame.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0549/2904/files/16684646294.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5004/9446/files/61561321429.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0801/6027/files/mamumubukasasirenagotufu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3756/2779/files/78079971494.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_off00005902.bin
57f37c593b98cde4bbd9e30d6b296bad208abb8745902aab5f567cacd4ea729b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5902 5480 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006bc8.bin
bb0c2eeca2b97c697b548548e38fb15459d49efd0ff394bbbd71b8dc813f0345
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BC8 9816 bytes