Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cbd1ac97e6e36a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.1 KB Created: 2020-08-17 08:37:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dbb4c2980ed02b4df6bc2efc41893bb8 SHA-1: caa9caa194169daece3c4dbb3930eeee358adebb SHA-256: 2cbd1ac97e6e36a36635837f52309203fa7980fa53daef4af5429858aeafcb07
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 a redirector service (ttraff.cc) and then to various PDF files hosted on Shopify. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains the string 'De jogos para pc leves' and the malicious redirector URL, indicating a lure for PC game downloads. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a redirector link confirms malicious intent.

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/pify?keyword=de+jogos+para+pc+leves
    • http://files.semipermanentmakeupacademy.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637839/7830101.pdf
    • http://files.stwxstrategic.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681851/suxojaveguperi-felabojofineli-vavobokul.pdf
    • http://files.anassafehavenrescue.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856949/cd26ae50f5e1.pdf
    • http://files.studio11sfe.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453065/xewufovopire.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6558/1469/files/32437966222.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9243/5359/files/nivigodovulataxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7013/6218/files/99770798505.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6527/8625/files/mobile_test_automation_with_appium_nishant_verma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8621/6344/files/12672787491.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8436/5476/files/62744873789.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6352/5026/files/48280916661.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2312/2084/files/ziposopusuririnefatowali.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3062/5950/files/29681953276.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_off00007b63.bin
419380ef925c77fa2e13aaf198b8e632aa5bc779ba56177d57281ff6a35a485b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B63 5236 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008d62.bin
24cb8c210642c39a105f771e695441c4e21b6f5a5d8143d30d0875824f0ba29c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D62 13788 bytes