Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40e6cfe3e9e35410…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-21 01:07:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eeb9d204b0982ae98c6c4e1363072dec SHA-1: 8ba45384d29312cc4cd87ba04f366555fee519b7 SHA-256: 40e6cfe3e9e354104a4f1be2a3330d0430262869f74ea11f806009be25692e84
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=emotions+worksheet+esl+pdf
    • http://files.mouselab.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969663/gavonam-tudavebevu.pdf
    • http://bulezu.michaelspauley.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407630/towojajosivupoleri.pdf
    • http://files.stoneworkswellness.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873783/143bde9b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3909/5973/files/29992412612.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8724/0093/files/kawimubagixopukupozuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8402/5751/files/adversarial_search.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5856/1175/files/91949548376.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6387/5486/files/andragogy_theory.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/luvibuxunefipefijuli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/womonevixaxijebuvi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9139/3698/files/sixifamiji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4291/2926/files/pdf_hematology_basic_principles_and_practice.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_off0000610d.bin
caa2df0164329f959bdb8f08985addc9d80ad3f10c230f9b72fb73b63ced7715
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x610D 5184 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000729e.bin
7ebf6a3d7fbd75a90621cb1026f7b9500887870142181662b21d4b5ff1872ddc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x729E 10120 bytes