Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f8b0b9f6b79c3ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-29 21:05:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cbe9dbc83764fb7be5e38d2c0b66bf09 SHA-1: adae2f8b80d8aed55e91dfc6c74b96a5fc609d74 SHA-256: 3f8b0b9f6b79c3ffff5f73a8b87d7b716b8fb0e7c3006d0245347583c7b9eb64
152 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'. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes the same URL and references 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting it was generated to appear as a document. The presence of numerous Shopify links, while mostly benign, indicates a pattern of using external hosting for content, likely to obscure the primary malicious destination. The primary attack vector is a malicious link designed to trick users into clicking through to a potentially harmful site.

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/wix?keyword=hoja+de+calculo+calc+ventajas+y+desventajas
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4754/1146/files/4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3287/1074/files/rivusi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5921/4501/files/logical_thinking_quiz_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9714/4990/files/57610630611.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5944/3862/files/rawolezidirofixuji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8947/7273/files/jurassic_park_theme_song_trumpet_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_aa195beb4c9541e6adc9809bf22f400e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c190173c940b48559d2cda89728aa1a2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0306/0128/files/janbaz_novel_by_abu_shuja_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1907/4712/files/b._arch_paper_jee_mains.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9209/8724/files/zuturetawukow.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_off00006920.bin
f8f819afcb2a1e3fdfe930b93aba521ecf16b41194b5c46104b358b4dd994dd4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6920 5036 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a61.bin
40f769cc11d16d83e73eaf3bf4127b846e381d68a0d8ddd6cefac79f03f6fb03
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A61 11500 bytes