Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45f75763662e4172…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-17 13:58:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dca053fb6584bad5dd943bf57b09ca92 SHA-1: 30106c0b72f890875603c9757d6edd29e06b0843 SHA-256: 45f75763662e4172c29893095f41928aa02258103874b6a91dc488a1a3d78839
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, disguised as a balance statement. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK confirms this. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of outbound links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggesting a link farm used for SEO poisoning or traffic redirection. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains Portuguese text related to a balance statement, reinforcing the lure.

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=balancete+de+verifica%25C3%25A7%25C3%25A3o+pdf
    • http://files.tuscaroraperformingarts.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606046/7670604.pdf
    • http://files.fearnotministries.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453124/begadibex.pdf
    • http://files.jeremy-proulx.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775197/b79ec8863a42.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3750/files/buxawox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6874/4087/files/matuvixe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8268/6370/files/gupajipaxejidebisaga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kuzizurogepibisomagin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0505/1029/files/57947045239.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6060/9703/files/7807568468.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9629/4051/files/bubiwujafawol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8733/1481/files/fundamentals_of_electrical_engineering_bobrow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6833/2968/files/45523213339.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8423/4398/files/jevalururokitatemona.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9462/0837/files/zitemofonoxizuboj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3861/3399/files/converter_arquivo_autocad_para_online.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_off00006ffa.bin
9e5891e7ba26bce4b21c627c8ae390b7e9997962d6eddb968be3236c15508715
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FFA 5580 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000822a.bin
a75a36a3e4c8bbc0ea56ce0baea97a56c8366e34353ea3433f6c57f535f05b74
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x822A 12812 bytes