Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49f4569385d57c77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.0 KB Created: 2020-08-25 11:45:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1e9af989bd711d1d634a835054b53c75 SHA-1: fca1db7838d7714f28c841a0485708c2ffc75559 SHA-256: 49f4569385d57c77c1a4da1bba459cf5993f37e274f83fe7d74393db54858cda
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same suspicious URL, indicating an attempt to trick users into clicking through to potentially harmful content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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.cc/pify?keyword=work+system+design+book+pdf
    • http://dajog.innerevolutionproducts.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453598/2780727.pdf
    • http://dosojiw.belireentertainment.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607505/baminusuwunik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2312/2077/files/20864569148.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0279/0039/files/21298314943.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2193/3466/files/51459946037.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5442/3445/files/74468663536.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9633/4753/files/24274566026.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1607/7991/files/oxford_dictionary_english_to_tamil_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6997/2384/files/72369778236.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1202/1662/files/68661897423.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1750/2869/files/62720550275.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0567/2597/files/catalog_hafele_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1148/7397/files/microsoft_natural_ergonomic_keyboard_4000_driver.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6604/1244/files/95868085665.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3699/9842/files/36219868701.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_off0000b25e.bin
db35a156b340b6085b4f3b602d6700d6d3dffdc52b8804210b8456eeab27a211
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB25E 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c4e4.bin
09ed099abb41af4a63915f0987b7dbbe414bf8d56a3652c4b1c8ac0f876f2235
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4E4 10076 bytes