Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3241f8b6355f5526…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-08-06 21:22:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c378dd9d3ac3809ed613c2f5f5a5b64a SHA-1: 6f132fd57d1a349659b73f439ee231e1489d76bb SHA-256: 3241f8b6355f55261d1e0e0df0fb7b497e69816f15ef7029a2a5d5ece3a82570
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains numerous embedded links. One critical heuristic identified a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com', which is likely used to obscure the true malicious destination. Another critical heuristic indicates a link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content broadly. The presence of these link farms and redirectors strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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=architecture+plan+symbols+pdf
    • http://files.elitestreetwear.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455680/5d5ddcb.pdf
    • http://files.gartersnakes.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775506/zinudijufefixugi.pdf
    • http://files.premierebasketball.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739069/5340979.pdf
    • http://files.carolannliaros.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814996/zatekedire.pdf
    • http://files.nickreadentertainment.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683135/f96a99036cd6d2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8530/7808/files/70676914270.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6112/5025/files/23200522913.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5526/6457/files/similarities_and_differences_between_mitosis_and_meiosis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6840/7464/files/online_malayalam_books_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2431/7607/files/feropononesofinegofitowo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9617/8845/files/sasuxozazajoron.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9585/0150/files/ahmed_deedat_francais.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/3789128943.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5756/0217/files/19673559176.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3545/0774/files/vukamamajosibet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3459/8809/files/94652463019.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7138/1405/files/xufolimedivafiwiwosopile.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1761/7057/files/72166059473.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2431/7607/files/feropononesofinegofi

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006e6a.bin
2ccc57de603e1beafb94e008be60d9d77998e60140e096676d9a0c64c59c0ccf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E6A 5628 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008165.bin
5b15eec325092ea7d09e57680cfaf215b50f0dda66b9d9c2c61eb63507d6bdab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8165 9476 bytes