Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e996baac0ceb4d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-08-24 15:19:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 22425ff5705d509af8ce56fe7db00dc7 SHA-1: 61ab7b6bd0bee132b77f8c3113698390408b0544 SHA-256: 3e996baac0ceb4d8f7ecd2f7d47ab8652dbf89dd3fbf9f37af11bdd43a94933f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to various Shopify-hosted PDF files, likely for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic indicates a link to a known malicious redirector, 'ttraff.cc', which is used to deliver a payload related to 'avg free antivirus software'. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering through deceptive links.

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=avg+free+antivirus+software++full+version
    • http://xevenak.stoicqabalah.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683138/kadawewaleroj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2195/9325/files/69306086706.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9659/5868/files/totebinikujidi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6181/9045/files/bu_jhansi_exam_date_2020_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9785/8972/files/tera_leveling_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9901/1738/files/brush_pen_lettering_practice_sheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9261/5073/files/14072179057.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5307/2022/files/46538167799.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6565/4939/files/champions_league_2020_19_schedule.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9476/0862/files/worekinox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4625/6295/files/knn_algorithm_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1992/6679/files/kizolonozi.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_off00006e9f.bin
8bb49fae16a3ce6fcde97be82a8bb61d299289b4d796725ae07cf78d77690b2f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E9F 5076 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008013.bin
2bcc08ac7dd1b3cbc0914d6af534445d5c65ab893b45bc0e6abe22c7bc59a81b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8013 10328 bytes