Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37f0a6da10f76dd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-19 03:30:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1256314927457f9829adc3eb358b9eb0 SHA-1: 281b97523f759c5c8ebf76343fcd4e7e55f81ebd SHA-256: 37f0a6da10f76dd57d6dcc08c5eb5e6652de1c5472006d1e3781d90b169fc24f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.cc). This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=best+networking+books+pdf+free, indicating a lure for users seeking free books. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=best+networking+books+pdf+free
    • http://takuno.kellermarkethouse.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380177/duvadasufiv.pdf
    • http://files.corridormanchester.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740682/bozijew.pdf
    • http://fareze.easybasicphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636832/naronopo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1594/6911/files/visupolefotofolilakuxaru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3495/9256/files/simplismente_acontece_baixar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/1676/8923/files/28264855657.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8026/9477/files/rifokemamulen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0055/1845/files/hallelujah_chorus_tonic_solfa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9356/6364/files/labview_for_dummies_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5041/6793/files/inteligencia_artificial_concepto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7551/8107/files/cassiopeia_guide_runes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3347/5737/files/vusizofogofolus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9212/4572/files/diabetic_macular_edema_classification.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5366/2883/files/2038269253.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_off000066ba.bin
2014611900eb2c7c60af30fab72d97cd4ef017aefdfb2e22288ee8c4f850d595
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66BA 5312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078ed.bin
39fbe93951a9a1d582a131bf9a8e6952027a76c689bf6f672719e5297ae7c656
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78ED 9992 bytes