Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36dd1eeb8bf784f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-19 22:04:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e4b5ef9ae73cafee7cf541f4b20f780e SHA-1: 4b873ea8b5bf1961bd2200b27c5ce147d599ead3 SHA-256: 36dd1eeb8bf784f15b5cf8e5116d45f419b78c25be8f1af1699f4ed9a51b65ca
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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, embedding numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive link within the document body, aiming to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure.

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=magic+the+gathering+fun+formats
    • http://files.thecorpsridingclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163669/108722418accd73.pdf
    • http://sesivux.kingfisher-strategy.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302868/9874854.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6332/0469/files/international_spelling_alphabet_english.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6633/5138/files/annuity_due_and_ordinary_annuity.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5744/6050/files/revonezusega.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6891/4838/files/isabella_vik_nude.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6803/1143/files/67238960785.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1055/5047/files/99302874371.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4431/6070/files/fenivoxut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/doxufuvezemog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0528/8352/files/56069815501.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_off000067c6.bin
9abe0658f51561f98cf7c5a0740e865a5f0472dbaf361d338b84ba1723c2a47d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67C6 5268 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000798c.bin
2bcad24f24680bed3cf6b81e325874520ef8070562ebf8c50cb325ba62a39196
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x798C 10552 bytes