Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41aae41419115ecb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-10 11:20:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a5aa31c7eccf7d0eea1068e76715a3c7 SHA-1: 8fd2fb5b4d25bb431b3dd4b51a1ec67e392cf4ab SHA-256: 41aae41419115ecbbae84136f40e41dc99115ab205ff8ad293ae710b42116c9d
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources hosted on Shopify and other domains. One critical heuristic indicates a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.com', suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URLs found in the heuristics, reinforcing the malicious intent. The presence of numerous links, including a malicious redirector, indicates an attempt to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=occupational+lung+diseases+pdf
    • http://vowutetop.feehanlitmag.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712323/nisatapezer_munimod_fipixap.pdf
    • http://files.foodaidfoundation.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739375/94f50.pdf
    • http://files.thruthelensofhannah.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682640/678519.pdf
    • http://files.tdsdancespace.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856987/4608494.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4431/6070/files/givotaretuwukijiraxuva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5519/4011/files/dumebufew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5398/1594/files/vikaxilo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7862/2111/files/cancer_de_colo_do_tero.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6067/2165/files/java_script_countdown_clock.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1175/1579/files/mexabulipudufexiwoluvib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3712/0933/files/tibusisezibuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9869/4042/files/76994187704.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/4274895189.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0778/6651/files/55937881015.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9090/2166/files/aladdin_story.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0677/8784/files/lunutesev.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_off00006a93.bin
11e98879ccc0b3369a1937c9623cd6aa6259775a9b9b5eeeea4c667a5ecd4bdc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A93 5256 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c86.bin
d0d0890783a40b36061a4983a01d9bc64d8995032ec162486a3fd6fce1aed674
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C86 9768 bytes