Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3799ec0491c72e98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.7 KB Created: 2020-09-03 23:42:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d941b453392aa353254c719230a16a79 SHA-1: f16b2ed2b5752511d9097e40b0c7c23b723dbc4f SHA-256: 3799ec0491c72e98b87e8f3dcf9ded70de458e710e495b5de3136b0107cc0cc8
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains a critical heuristic firing for a PDF redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=instrumental+ost+marriage+not+dating', which is known malicious infrastructure. Additionally, the PDF hosts a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains the same redirector URL and numerous Shopify-hosted PDF links.

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.me/wix?keyword=instrumental+ost+marriage+not+dating
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5023/6064/files/12758261883.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6332/8418/files/customary_law_meaning.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8279/2606/files/74936833072.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3664/7317/files/74049636523.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2521/1298/files/kiwojidovovufazu.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9e41f0_0d505f1e19084c9385500a883f2e1d7c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/625844_1b32c5187240498b9f5f7460c1792a35.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/82e28d_fffecb5187f949e582dc8c495c3b6718.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6cfc61_5646233390084b09ad71d050cbe9b5a1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_db3253c0efc7482b895a918465f5b309.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4d6844_bf6e1139a11d4223a9c85975746363a8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/81d6a4_b01ecbd7df97455491d505ea454aec72.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f5b4b82739394ef4bb6a35ed2618f455.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c3548c_e5b489ad34ab4f68a95e8a6f151bb458.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
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07ffa3420c57657ae9518b7e12666d0d5f66e8a8fcf3b0ee8e2f1ccf3b7db421
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A7F 5080 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006ba6.bin
dbcfc2529866850ec81e69179cb6df01a24ed7bd684b4327937aad1f2f22f63a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BA6 10060 bytes