Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39d4106fad9738eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.9 KB Created: 2020-08-30 14:48:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fdc3eb4b9f87eb1a20f6ed7af5819623 SHA-1: 7cbd932ea6974594d94177a49b8330cd35f8830f SHA-256: 39d4106fad9738ebfaad9180b5ad9d3aca9f93b378fe45558c1bbb6af78fca61
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF 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.cc', which is likely used to obscure the final destination or distribute malware. Another critical heuristic indicates this is part of a link farm, with many external PDF links, suggesting an SEO poisoning or traffic redirection scheme. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and several benign-looking URLs, reinforcing the redirection attack pattern.

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=antiques+collectibles+price+guide
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7603ae_430b59719d934e3c8b4c267877b5c37b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f8cea_a857f172095842abb0c5a5993e3d5902.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5e8de6_0fbac7135ebf44adb5d63f6800e9707a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7749/3146/files/practice_worksheet_graphing_cubic_functions_using_transformations.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6536/0027/files/18813662297.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9bec7f00dfa645c18488ffa75b96729d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6116da_eee443aa47c2444fab3479c965683dcf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/73c254_d83097b17d1e4e4e87e4d511a98f5deb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0e26aba2fe3248e48108a57d43fa3a8c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8617/5651/files/65858251300.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5517/7109/files/boy_scout_logo.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_off0000469e.bin
1b9c1a6f490aeb1988b0098076371a83c0d1874f5bbe79fc7eea38ae37460afc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x469E 5284 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005897.bin
72578f6a3c33cb854b8234298cb36a03a57de9492d39ff9cba155ca7a1af6e0b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5897 10092 bytes