Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 448fbf63225eeb40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 20:18:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ebc97d46a6308d223eb66a77412c1c1b SHA-1: 67339f716f2c2a83b816e3aa5ad76eb6e9212b6a SHA-256: 448fbf63225eeb403961150a76d0cf577c905e91af2bd770c6d9de4aa284bc20
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a high number of external links, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to distribute malicious content. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=poem+for+a+sister', is identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector and the link farm heuristic strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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/wix?keyword=poem+for+a+sister
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5713/3221/files/small_compress_300kb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4513/5260/files/caterpillar_3208_parts_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7068/4317/files/19721677023.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3078/8758/files/estrategias_de_aprendizaje_auditivo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4016/7320/files/2138494505.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/6844/8930/files/gaxokevabawod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1574/0312/files/29507190981.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4645/2899/files/astronomical_photometry.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b7082a_d9c78e0da94f460ea3279699e6df7d99.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b4609a_592390c4de6b478c962409def359400e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a4e402_2cbd73e9e8424c57a2a54be0530cf636.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_113ebf78a3324752a355d55de411a222.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/83e24f_a4c8e17c204f4d578b858f96f09264cf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/10e3af_5514e65991a74e3cb3b2c59f421fa9be.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_off000069fe.bin
18ea3750ae7c54a2240e57152ad2f7c95a7c4cfabc18d7e630998cd0d06890e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69FE 4880 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a79.bin
3a3e55c207d4212ad06f207a3750b75b5bc4c78ea9e371216d9910d678916d2a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A79 10264 bytes