Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2df27ed7e55e3f2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-22 19:04:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a0b05bc3959338b4ac932236c7e07745 SHA-1: 6f3ce98578d9a70f4a4c028a8a2a76b525c0a220 SHA-256: 2df27ed7e55e3f2db6af02345f8faccc0c92200a22aa81311b3bf515bbba9d6f
150 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'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains. The document body contains the same malicious URL and a reference to 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting it was generated programmatically. The primary intent appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via the 'ttraff.com' redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=c%252F+o+kancharapalem+songs++naa
    • http://files.hdloolbox.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164063/22b22213f9e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5934/5573/files/astm_a1061_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3019/8937/files/asterix_and_obelix_comics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/5303/6199/files/automation_test_strategy_document.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7666/2934/files/sda_baptism_bible_study.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6891/4838/files/tuluvagijoregivedoxosigo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0415/8364/files/adobe_lightroom_6_torrent.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0166/6969/files/2004_bombardier_outlander_400_service_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4456/8216/files/domain_driven_design_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7780/3931/files/12738263012.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9232/9119/files/85876003506.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_off00006b65.bin
01923e186df07e04f2cd2e8fb4a4bdd0b9f3f9c4b169f3ec0fd6b92d149fe134
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B65 5352 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007d7b.bin
d120d01ffeb0cecc3326c72e9f9f81959aea653df4fe647dc84523c25bf291ff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D7B 12900 bytes