Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 470c206d6533dbf2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.3 KB Created: 2020-08-25 00:25:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e18acd0e85865906a91855304a6a7cff SHA-1: b679a6d958cb11914b4f260c09f9e436afad947a SHA-256: 470c206d6533dbf2d3ec0247922ed45ebbb9578f688a66c137524138bed39fc2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, with many links pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, some of which are unknown or potentially malicious. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body contains obfuscated text and a URL that appears to be part of the lure. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=bubble+shooter+free++uptodown
    • http://jixanawi.springwindlabradors.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/wurapu.pdf
    • http://files.breedingforthefuture.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681566/sutavumuz.pdf
    • http://bibiber.gietal.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453574/nubuxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9077/5965/files/73112874941.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9360/6056/files/lapuseluvi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3146/8951/files/bottle_capping_machine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8619/8424/files/99976165642.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8372/5990/files/80636985934.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6980/9564/files/teraluga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4572/5094/files/golilepazezonen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0070/9791/files/sewiwepipofaraboponusig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9647/1707/files/66157970664.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5911/7206/files/54857568816.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7637/8014/files/90567198167.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_off0000455d.bin
8293ab963b65c4a54842096d3f448e4f29587c1c9acae077019aa60fd974357b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x455D 5200 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005713.bin
db1e225137df98842ef61e89f84b9b1bc8d73b5f9ceb8c26c3207d96275baefe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5713 8600 bytes