Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40d0a7aa958aa1dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-09-03 00:06:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 38975b6202b7db436f5e5bdd10fcefd3 SHA-1: d690cf0de7017f61eef422199ea87663d61d8d40 SHA-256: 40d0a7aa958aa1dc4caa4b7945eaf4e245da69292096826d59ac31fa644f0652
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious due to a critical heuristic firing for a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body contains obfuscated text and a URL pointing to 'ttraff.cc', which is identified as a malicious redirector. Additionally, the PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to benign Shopify URLs, but the primary malicious link is the most concerning IOC. The ML classifier also 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.cc/wix?keyword=chewing+gum+song+free
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6891/4838/files/rajkumar_biology_notes_class_11.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/7274/9467/files/faceing_math_lesson_6_answer_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8827/1767/files/zufaviwikubosigukipos.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f8cea_1c354fb0da4a4f5d96925317e71851ed.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/93c935_3b65f6d3e9174fb68d01023ed931631c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dcf9ad_78e6ae160cbc45bb8b89db42df7b0b05.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce0e6d_0a19461f06d64e7b972cc3ace39acbe4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97368a_73cd7c724a42428788d167ba3aaf2e89.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3fd21f_758c5fc5250740e48f292abd7d16e489.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ffb9a4596e70430c8c666932c403267b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ea5d7b_1b62747c51024fc996cb8195e4217dc7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ad03d_6347b2bcee204da5a6071c015f55f05a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_378f41b42f414a37bd4cc1379b8527a7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1e4819_2c3982c0476f4539b1c7ac4c8a0f40d4.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_off000075aa.bin
c1f6554a87d2c13cf5e66548c1addfcc34e1418d1930ee89a0d4059421a6ff18
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75AA 4936 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008666.bin
cfd0a39aca121c1cfe66aa75dad38bfbb9ec588c2358f8e719afca01f56328d2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8666 10736 bytes