Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c162c65ff828e15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-30 05:32:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a3ffb37ce7c2d2b9212630ae7632d3cd SHA-1: 21cd0cbfddb55517ff9743fbf4cd4789939608ba SHA-256: 3c162c65ff828e154fdeeba73f038acb0ba4b33369997d4dd11d393df2c62eff
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.com'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a link farm for sheet music. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, further supports the SEO link farm heuristic. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack vector appears to be luring users to the malicious redirector.

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.com/wix?keyword=ashes+of+love+ost+piano+sheet+music
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8251/3561/files/sodium_bromide_msds.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5165/6102/files/95769473475.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2018/0894/files/zolugowisobezodususowixid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5639/0551/files/molugevelad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/logopazunu.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a593f_c342a227cc5f46fead66f19bcf6247ec.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9904c2_ab698cd339f44360978fe92daa2d0f61.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d78f471f79da4167b0a7e9953e87252a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4725f1_66cb116c5c7541f4b187d4c897121cbe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cac9e4_c2c6f3465a424f6391b5b1719b5ac938.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1d64af_a0dc7548380446cab191b048122a41e2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fc25a47a265146d5aba92136afab4e3e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/921909_2db10fab1e964a7da0d16b558cd32690.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8235/7663/files/vicente_fernandez_corridos_de_caballos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8936/2082/files/26836628394.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4402/0125/files/john_deere_weed_eater.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_off0000549e.bin
a977dd6b95d3bf1082fd4f5a98c54ff1584c56af5b4907a5499e7935f18fff94
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x549E 5208 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006634.bin
8e2c76085cad1df3609ab0c93a52b6c1498ba3638783b6b641dd13de03aadff5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6634 14644 bytes