Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ccdd628787b836f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.0 KB Created: 2020-08-16 14:02:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dafab5f2f5111f9c47d0ea825d5eb398 SHA-1: bf8942c69b6f242fdadbe2e39e52068bb3de653d SHA-256: 3ccdd628787b836fe4d662c45de8281984a2989576b991ffd5003303c24752df
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link to 'ttraff.com', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text referencing 'Duolingo apk for android 4.2.2', suggesting a lure for users seeking this software. The PDF also hosts a large number of links to other PDFs on Shopify, likely as part of an SEO spam campaign to improve search engine ranking for the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.com/pify?keyword=duolingo+apk+for+android+4.+2.+2
    • http://files.preciousinvestltd.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437018/e860e5206d3e28b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5479/1846/files/51089125395.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0460/8155/files/72887396362.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1175/1579/files/vipiwaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0736/0667/files/80354684494.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6154/2054/files/juvawufis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1503/5290/files/8916336556.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5994/4353/files/48140294457.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0454/9531/files/king_of_paper_chasin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6454/0835/files/jurnal_biosistematika_tumbuhan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1829/6216/files/ditirazunowukem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6049/4490/files/9974965756.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000089ab.bin
72e81284209ecfb63b5874f3cfc46da9b83fa4493c518945033f17a2efe55144
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x89AB 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009bfa.bin
b225312f1bc69e3dd59daa4e53f9cf65d1f55f2b645902409a30805699336da2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9BFA 10924 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000c182.bin
541fa2b6826b0add99b7d5a173ef1e6a5567607b5192f75b810eb17d6a563501
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC182 16204 bytes