Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49cda22e36b420b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.8 KB Created: 2020-09-01 07:41:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2b51fd5a883ec08a4bc3a31e7239fc0d SHA-1: ca70f299f2d2ddc89752cf1b2dd2f3118f1399f7 SHA-256: 49cda22e36b420b33c4b2f7abf76fbc71934407cb8699982f742c21a0f67e8b4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. This URL is embedded within the document body, disguised with a search query for 'california king bed sheets kohls', indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The file also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is characteristic of SEO link farm techniques used to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute malicious content.

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/wix?keyword=california+king+bed+sheets+kohls
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b4609a_c83a6bd1fc6341c985c0519fd2821e58.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/409ca8_407209c97ba6428caa074df960153573.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_15345c7aa809426fb861a94daaa19a05.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a298ce_9e28473829a14c8fa53ef3c7e1027e78.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6118/2617/files/45750795866.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1347/8312/files/82252812757.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0722/0635/files/52969788962.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5649/6794/files/guriluwurukikodazuxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8370/3206/files/45360285946.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4976/0421/files/camion_catarey_wikipedia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0239/5813/files/13132503100.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8663/3374/files/wps_wpa_connect_dumpper_app.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4539/4331/files/26884595993.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_off0000a8f6.bin
90eedcf05b5e2a0016af535aa26de805f6be819c064232cb89641f712367011d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA8F6 5276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000badc.bin
91b3a8ceb4e13c4fc65a019c731c39596d75151ba0adfaac10d658e1ff97a21f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBADC 10348 bytes