Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31ccc6b686f0e52e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-01 18:27:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e088a49de915d78becbe4f1e16974fa9 SHA-1: 3a6b08d28c659dd2075f8cf4fa88f45ffa97f0f3 SHA-256: 31ccc6b686f0e52e2d7f08a8a3c950e32411a1e4f02552f8cb5ec7f7f0b73d7e
154 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 pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link to 'ttraff.cc' is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to a PDF download and the malicious URL itself. This suggests a link farm or redirection attack designed to lead users to malicious content.

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=traffic+highway+engineering%252A+th+edition+pdf
    • http://files.plasticvillefornewbies.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739656/noxafogem.pdf
    • http://files.marthalindsell.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740490/4064162.pdf
    • http://files.vafblapblfoundation.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681976/b9802fea4e2.pdf
    • http://files.deshlerchamber.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814353/zorodoribufozu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1664/0919/files/18298663543.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2800/4507/files/bajavinodanajuxozifulujag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0459/1271/files/lebejulewidegizuxuzu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/51994241049.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5040/0928/files/96168367874.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5804/4827/files/ravulozalexupo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6275/5490/files/pemukorozina.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6104/3605/files/53379492435.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9899/5877/files/fadasolosemijaxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7892/4953/files/28411026210.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7367/3118/files/81331614809.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9209/8716/files/kiletimugopupamumemokuru.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_off000070a2.bin
cae4a4e1a0e62ddfbea256a556c7492be1bf12c3cbe8368f55d4ce028db166a5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70A2 5416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008333.bin
a505b46520e51f365bb1e784038dba768b2a656dda02f889a7e6e2c479eec26d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8333 10124 bytes