Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 438f4c1be3d1edb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.5 KB Created: 2020-08-05 17:25:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dc3c953db1652e04d5b32469286533a2 SHA-1: 47c46517e5317998cd0fbc4112a8e1447e07b970 SHA-256: 438f4c1be3d1edb3a28c88040e1011e46a22a3ebc81d2807d971dee3a027cce7
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to ttraff.com. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The embedded document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, reinforcing the attack pattern.

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/wb?keyword=exploring%20public%20relations%20pdf
    • http://kitaw.womansclubofpowhatan.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398091/335632.pdf
    • http://files.freelancemarketingcopy.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874119/wipekawajakozaved.pdf
    • http://files.learnandteachanything.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302921/6560165.pdf
    • http://fanorul.myunfilteredeveryday.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681026/lapufetevefanavumix.pdf
    • http://files.letstalkpublichealth.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696274/8917986.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9453/9429/files/pobopotifipadetoxir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8461/9680/files/xagedok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5296/5792/files/advanced_java_gtu_syllabus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/34707652888.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1877/8781/files/28905182090.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3390/2760/files/94208331828.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4677/2629/files/16983336161.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0942/5056/files/rutusokokilobezisaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6626/0642/files/13042224522.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1818/2041/files/bioplastic_technology.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1390/5311/files/13802037897.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_off00005425.bin
d8a4bafa0b92cf3fe11eedd6dd049f5c9a837d8cfe124cddca30c33355f16a2f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5425 5488 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000066df.bin
b1b79354dde088276c867595fc65b17ada6ec94027efa658779aefc0341ad914
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66DF 10140 bytes