Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f538611a408c081…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.3 KB Created: 2020-08-16 17:45:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1d64b8c6b6fdc4f41424ec1ea7963e25 SHA-1: f40024e61e054566cc6cd42c261a07efe2cb4017 SHA-256: 2f538611a408c081ef74e51de464cbe4d608155e667bd96d6441ba86e4ebfe12
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK pointing to ttraff.com. Another critical heuristic, PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, indicates a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=nzism+information+classification, suggesting a lure for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier also strongly indicated 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/pify?keyword=nzism+information+classification
    • http://files.avhauling.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398479/550cf41cf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5282/5767/files/dukex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2885/6477/files/gituwokogige.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2187/6900/files/merchandise_assortment_plan_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6844/8152/files/jipusadanobu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7341/3028/files/dizuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3936/7061/files/housecroft_inorganic_chemistry_4e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2249/0528/files/agriculture_information_system_project.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0204/3288/files/xosemopogo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7920/3992/files/49062699994.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1042/4993/files/tisikojukafewa.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
font_00_sfnt_off00004b23.bin
0f5dfc4fc47200b41d19edbf939d1d7c29e36ad1acec85683ed33405cc83c327
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B23 4716 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005afd.bin
3092bf5e464dcd6bf927da56da27f92209a85143b3cb4346b5d6230317e4f08e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AFD 10340 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007e52.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E52 4324 bytes