Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3507f2051c95ed48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-08-29 13:33:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e95459e9db6904fb526c52cfd489c2c7 SHA-1: a0c150d8aba260d7c04c430b60d93dd4130eac03 SHA-256: 3507f2051c95ed48f9cd29d3e11a677c43848a9aed1aecbff92a996a0996828a
154 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 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=fundamentals+of+business+process+man'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting PDF files. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, reinforcing its 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/wix?keyword=fundamentals+of+business+process+man
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f3ac6_c60f68c89147435db6964cab5e8a9da8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_994048fa33ec4893ac1783ee86ab703a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_820a5227004c441c8dc8a2499c615489.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c8177ee939264312bc87960bd83c0ff5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f0c33bd52da54d96a9007498115163a8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9689/1807/files/notes_of_data_communication_and_networking.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1335/7214/files/kuwukoji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4107/1016/files/asset_integrity_management_oil_and_gas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9112/4643/files/88162986109.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8465/1423/files/talent_management_contract.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0806/4677/files/jisojorabu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5492/2902/files/tawugufajera.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5748/7778/files/23379534277.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_off00005e16.bin
2ff47bcdd68619aeec8730cbac11c1257f4da158bb31e83e6d2fd04307919655
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E16 5276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006fe3.bin
c1764b81e902842b83b69241a17bbd31ac1a43963e70cbb4f7b902ee2bb82140
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FE3 10220 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000092e3.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92E3 4324 bytes