Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44a90284303059eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-30 00:58:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f19b587c928bb9ac1bd468695dd804d5 SHA-1: cd4a7366f9d09540a0e73d82be696c01a36fd072 SHA-256: 44a90284303059eb4d49f18c2452196af5df085a8d8ff5af31241d57df00e3a3
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=vectric+aspire+metric+tool+database' is the primary indicator of malicious intent. Additionally, the PDF was flagged by an ML classifier as malicious and contains a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains the malicious URL and several benign-looking 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.cc/wix?keyword=vectric+aspire+metric+tool+database
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/5421/8646/files/gutter_guard_installation_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8428/2008/files/tiniborewenomozotil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6404/7269/files/17339111324.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6617/9230/files/rugojol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0133/0339/files/khng_m_c_file_trong_outlook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1459/4464/files/73827084053.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9313/9364/files/lodusamupupukipamebito.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de60da_561a266d5ee7448a9cf282e1db736276.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c8c60a7e52924ac494b06a0c2cdab01e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/756799_8cf6132667a74e5696f807ce03d50068.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_571338f8de2840c8824c13cd15b6d5be.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_off0000589b.bin
b2dfc81271ef4dd579028a7c1f90ab351b0a0e811370672ad088e9efc913259d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x589B 5008 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006995.bin
28ee1de40c480ff459f79815af9341ca5b914d7cc3547cbabbdc1a2b991ecca3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6995 11252 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008e7b.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E7B 4324 bytes