Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a46810a242f2e49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.5 KB Created: 2020-08-12 16:55:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 04cafdccecb15efcf0b4460a9d92dcd6 SHA-1: 2d9a2d5d54b7218cb4b5ab957e0c077f2f7584cd SHA-256: 3a46810a242f2e4905e6f0dd8829e6e6b94d093dfb629909f19b3e611e67c2e7
150 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, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=2007%20chrysler%20sebring%20touring%20manual'. This URL is likely part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, reinforcing its malicious intent. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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/wb?keyword=2007%20chrysler%20sebring%20touring%20manual
    • http://files.margaritatovar.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070469/a6a5fdd.pdf
    • http://files.princealbert.cjsclimbandplay.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682171/gometelinagibizo.pdf
    • http://files.jordanmclayton.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874276/fikokoxesasopov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4615/1078/files/.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9237/6741/files/accord_du_participe_pass_avec_avoir_exercices.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0433/6040/files/story_map_2nd_grade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2270/2999/files/98320595331.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7313/2957/files/sonijedafogon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6642/4470/files/modern_combat_5_apk_mania.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8512/8090/files/76720393092.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9095/8749/files/bioreaction_engineering_principles_nielsen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/84574839703.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3892/4181/files/38789609959.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_off000045a5.bin
74a8bd50ba46e80252d57aa53fcdfe12b4d9063d5d7e93c6c285342bea2ddae7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x45A5 5716 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000058e9.bin
7a4b55a0e2cea2053eff62a08fb4f291f2a7828dc2e03444a4ae05e923df782a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58E9 9504 bytes