Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 477d0b181d5c9d96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.3 KB Created: 2020-08-14 01:26:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ddb4e6dabc1a201725298ecd9139074a SHA-1: d38f89fc8fa66f0e34417fa43a85de4ce97d8df8 SHA-256: 477d0b181d5c9d96d662ca51239761cd06432b2258320d0789f0d707b8613812
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is disguised with keywords related to 'Jesus ringtones telugu music'. The document also hosts a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=jesus+ringtones+telugu+music
    • http://files.mountainbelles.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379615/5236545.pdf
    • http://files.lucernelyme.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452811/vopigimeduj_voloximomojiv_ramuguwadober_muzojuxetiseniz.pdf
    • http://sowezagoz.northendoutdoors.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636664/tuwutew.pdf
    • http://files.moonhawkvisions.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741225/vizod.pdf
    • http://files.stowersfireandsafety.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874026/boromifum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/7146/5630/files/12759798331.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/5989/8518/files/2960698988.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kusamusa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0512/4516/files/10473407175.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gevuruliwineda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/16946396068.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0492/7905/files/wupusofanerulowoda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6556/3549/files/reporter_live_video_gana.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9980/8149/files/pobof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8489/0790/files/honda_astrea_grand_service_manual_pdf.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_off00004413.bin
662c7e11a4cdcef50db9d2f5d0892ba151b4501e01abf1e9cf5141527fbf73c7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4413 4900 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000054a4.bin
f2c5f695e2f6adaee5858a003e160a7ec3a21e7606edf0d2ea87ce34e8966394
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54A4 9300 bytes