Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 475ca160293d7c3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.0 KB Created: 2020-08-02 21:43:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e6af2c037582c48edfebcb2ee8e76901 SHA-1: ba2efe09fa069744f78ab8aaebfd1b4aafbbd220 SHA-256: 475ca160293d7c3ff98d1818e77c2710174e192f9d762fc8de54f7f3409d4c09
154 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, which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body and embedded links suggest a lure related to 'responsive design pdf', likely intended to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to improve search engine visibility for malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector is the malicious redirector link.

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=responsible+responsive+design+pdf
    • http://files.kanelaandcompany.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406473/3117593.pdf
    • http://files.alterraocean.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871677/pogot_lifejanofonel_zujexodobas.pdf
    • http://files.judithavers.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384300/7447918.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3042/9346/files/cisco_ip_phone_7962_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0711/4391/files/48811417510.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1283/9834/files/jurovetusekuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5906/1670/files/bufijafozefowu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2240/9125/files/arris_how_to_port_forward.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2058/2050/files/7863205774.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9597/3276/files/7859228409.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1007/1448/files/jikeri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8534/0580/files/visamejutuxemapiwa.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_off00007b1e.bin
7752deb43c119edc85121855dfae71e460e4ba852a4adec62d31c79a94e4d49b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B1E 4916 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008bdb.bin
87abef92b14119a64203909c56dba06a550edc3662d84f40c8b4ade3920fa4bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BDB 12860 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b557.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB557 4324 bytes