Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29cfbfc8cfb48ab4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.6 KB Created: 2020-08-31 04:29:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d581a818fe602a8e54580bdc6648aad2 SHA-1: 1bc27b19042a89ac5e7a1b1cc68808da847a625c SHA-256: 29cfbfc8cfb48ab48582272c122ce81bb652894caef83d3650d1e25e39e7b3d7
152 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.cc'. This URL is likely part of a phishing or malware distribution chain. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links to PDF files hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or content stuffing technique. The ML classifier also 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.cc/wix?keyword=step+11+aa+big+book
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1583/0695/files/pusexijaxatisorefodebi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2405/4432/files/punctuation_marks_worksheet_for_high_school.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1537/9880/files/banking_service_chronicle_june_2020.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fa5618555b194b2882f6d66162cbb146.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d78803_f26b107fc6a6448895871de8a93a7b4f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1463/6198/files/proyecto_de_azoteas_verdes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4669/8146/files/6935952222.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1959/0056/files/flask_render_template_jsonify.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9559/5938/files/35754713813.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3b47cb_eba3418075d14de5aa94a23343aab981.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/225520_107dc6bc701a499bbd2797efaa8d61fe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f967ac_cb65bc55d02e49f9b4a5388b120271ff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7c3584_bac2a60452e9447fb2dd1bcf5f969ea0.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off000092f9.bin
4011a38423f71a37276f219537390f14e5c60a3e4b76cf279bccb2b490410f84
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x92F9 19224 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off00005fd0.bin
283163ef44fd95df84ccee83c47a0d66daa1c861431a763a36f0307dc5153347
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FD0 5040 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007111.bin
cd8b275fa68bda48a393449239815db028d4a3e7a765e45392307054d018e1f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7111 9836 bytes