Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 415bb02688fbed20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.9 KB Created: 2020-08-04 22:11:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0b148ae5b9678f7ebf90b7dcf6f9f405 SHA-1: 0b7bb87bb62e7836493a1dbcba7bf7b853cb194b SHA-256: 415bb02688fbed20f8ff89959a7e0b720d9123c10b1e91328d679e305ec596d0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain embedded URLs, but no specific script execution or payload delivery was detected.

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=annihilation+comic+espa%25C3%25B1ol+pdf
    • http://files.claytonpondhoa.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873795/9357871.pdf
    • http://files.brazosmetaldesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163859/kekamowivebi.pdf
    • http://files.organizingbyali.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483275/sikoxupigesori.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2398/3001/files/dakokegipadelanifiro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8402/7806/files/22819047574.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7888/5280/files/93677170490.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5564/3813/files/19775648024.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7921/2959/files/27638317894.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8524/2275/files/74665345702.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/2857609843.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nebisineseboji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5698/8317/files/faseninure.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8118/8003/files/kigogezamupud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4474/1015/files/plural_of_memo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4613/2129/files/83897314183.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_off00008e52.bin
b5011c513c2be65377fb09d692ccc75587188f3781189459e145f4ff7ac8206d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E52 5500 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a0a4.bin
8421b2f45d9cf8c4e0b1a2406a2ae88ce96bdea1e92627a98a6cb73be434f010
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0A4 10572 bytes