Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 496eddb3d6dfc113…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-07-25 09:20:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: b50506b943d7523ae4aafc193345ae1c SHA-1: 6a18aed3615a7c360d9b2cf4311fbc1a7cb3b758 SHA-256: 496eddb3d6dfc113e4bc6acec8e3d5b6cf90e4ad24f75ae8b963bc2d86dcfd90
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.com). This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning technique used to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be the malicious redirector link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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/wb?keyword=ordinal%20numbers%20worksheets%20for%20preschoolers In PDF document text
    • http://files.naughtypup.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453124/730915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.herveybayorchidsociety.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739802/vatijedevaz-tumopewerusod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dlsu-soe.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453214/71d863ba3b7db22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.newparkgames.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302926/ritifibu_nibimadifiv_deladexoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.syrianmigrationsolutionsproject.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874627/xujevamurezifo-lizejigadaroni-satugom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9148/5091/files/44924675589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/91300886864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0176/6310/files/97296905174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4162/8072/files/1519210917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4189/1238/files/61654671422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/soreluseloxajakikolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1243/1776/files/vuvasazovoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0145/4500/files/lerib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1161/2572/files/wavuwesobez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6268/9946/files/kimilik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006979.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6979 5600 bytes
SHA-256: 1f54b55ef604b1021b4da23775f95a8cbe284b45c2875f7aaa8a0481418ab5a7
font_01_sfnt_off00007c61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C61 10088 bytes
SHA-256: a285a111b73b260040ada08aa004270215617f0ba04244363b69009bc23f9eea

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