Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 446043198f8ed3be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-15 03:11:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f0f168ac2fd78a4724021af0cca4c354 SHA-1: 71d00b8c8455a6c97718bc6b6fba4f8932d3a11f SHA-256: 446043198f8ed3beffb8ec5f6acbf8d11933135af8b19dd33e31f815ba3e407a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a music album and the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=carnival+of+rust+album', suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=carnival+of+rust+album
    • http://files.i9studios.in/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681851/982d77528f4ba0f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5197/3799/files/61350416494.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6025/6159/files/29712486639.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4923/7145/files/judowesababun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9408/1687/files/21014393672.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/5380/4694/files/dhanvantari_ayurveda_books_in_telugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1896/9507/files/gojexudelipo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0705/7825/files/54974006552.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0244/5475/files/35618125808.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4192/9886/files/feguwefikezirifozomumu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8298/7173/files/46714812216.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000058f7.bin
a82ba11ffcde951f79b05f50328bcb4d4b0b7c57e0a5da7be517e85a026c5700
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58F7 4900 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006987.bin
b0e03730e2d28f8ac78b37ccd89f86522de4b4da9aae46f41d0ee8da4a59abae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6987 11328 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008e84.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E84 4324 bytes