Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42c359524ceab632…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-08-19 15:38:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ce4df8f6e42b7495600c0e8601597db0 SHA-1: 7bc028b50ed88bb5afaf6f0f0a8bece689c9cd6e SHA-256: 42c359524ceab632e6258903b7157dc9e6cf686657d8979099bbc29e7f8af365
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources, many hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=arador+de+terra+manual, which is likely used to funnel victims to a phishing or malware delivery site. The document body contains garbled text but includes the malicious URL and several other PDF links.

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=arador+de+terra+manual
    • http://files.steelheaders.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379894/7010446.pdf
    • http://fugeliga.andrewmarikis.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384714/bc4c0c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1897/6414/files/aluminium_composite_panel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7904/9121/files/kidux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9691/4587/files/libikegixuzel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8605/3527/files/damavosumegi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8770/6774/files/45958970590.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0441/8458/files/usf_campus_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6538/4866/files/84664241167.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4880/3227/files/37171008941.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7330/5762/files/rutobekorixukeke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1189/7504/files/zebojavipa.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_off00005fd8.bin
a7730ab8555f027b20f4846c6d546fd0b46633807682c11fa7c2d050f19867e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FD8 4780 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006ff6.bin
4d0ac44e24d13d4de1da12fd2bdba67f625978ac83dec157e7760d05a04784df
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FF6 10088 bytes