Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4805cc9f6d32e472…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-08-24 04:07:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e5783d0cad5a36e3590d5eb3f19d7057 SHA-1: 8ad2b7a6961f4da8968acccfefd424df9d6b1ba7 SHA-256: 4805cc9f6d32e47205dfe8edbf3c2421a30dab6fe2c508cc43bd22950ecadc73
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that leads to the redirector. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to obscure the malicious destination. The primary malicious IOC is the ttraff.com URL, which likely serves as a gateway to a phishing or malware distribution page.

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=adobe+illustrator+chinese+fonts
    • http://puradug.leverageleadership.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740086/7415234.pdf
    • http://files.survivingmentalhealth.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384468/bemuxosomoxe-mubevuk.pdf
    • http://pavibawap.freedomdds.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695818/fovelo.pdf
    • http://taxowi.katiereyphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398134/liwujonuz.pdf
    • http://files.soundsfunny.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968956/risoporijuj_tovonopozi_pivafazida.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/7041/1172/files/learn_english_grammar_easy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7663/2214/files/mac_os_10._14.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8762/5369/files/but_i_m_a_cheerleader_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3467/3301/files/45781650267.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6001/0906/files/95446599247.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4950/8250/files/30579810914.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3190/3902/files/data_binding_checkbox_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9433/4869/files/moziximigetadilop.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_off00006c9a.bin
3287db330fba23bf4dd45353c59a19c8afee13bae076ec3ce1b15129454a85eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C9A 5236 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007e5b.bin
ead14cb23b90b3fdac1b1e053acd78ca50fa784f55d08eb62fd1c9a0b257b407
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E5B 10192 bytes