Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42f0b590a42d17cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-19 15:16:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 33f6b7307a84399cbcb148936aca819f SHA-1: 02ee11b225cee35f4befea866eda4ada9ece5c69 SHA-256: 42f0b590a42d17cb888ea5cd728e8ad2e00c7a0e32dc02f01e1fe1a16789c5c0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link to 'ttraff.cc' is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is part of a link farm strategy to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. 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.cc/pify?keyword=call+answered+remotely
    • http://files.oregonbazaar.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070294/zekorud_gatotemulos.pdf
    • http://files.thesanctuaryatmn.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856184/d83262d07.pdf
    • http://sufozegu.planteachlove.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381518/paxamomadofeliw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6163/9318/files/wakijizafama.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6300/0734/files/33560244925.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5725/8401/files/sijorenoxizarew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dosoxuwananeworatimuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2201/4870/files/tusokobebatiru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1423/4016/files/46663892408.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5354/7677/files/62630150331.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9625/1304/files/jivixeluwutedoke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8447/8632/files/63150409371.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1886/3260/files/pulavob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3588/5725/files/mapa_carcassonne.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_off00006b31.bin
5a28d6a407fcc79ca117f6dfe86a3b615b59060aeeb16d71daa009c31ddc2893
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B31 5068 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c65.bin
836afe167593dfcc354622836557ae8cd39a2bd192950232d60c18ff30767e14
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C65 9708 bytes