Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ab5fd85137c1ec9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-09-05 17:22:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 25ac7e23a2ad5641a63ccd5668ddceda SHA-1: 206a17b45dba566ec7fe31160a6c1f29b9574595 SHA-256: 4ab5fd85137c1ec91224ae422e9d2b9e99215882828e7fbe9d467f9df9c684f3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link to 'ttraff.club' which is flagged as a malicious redirector, disguised as a download for 'whatsapp 2019 free apk'. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. 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.club/wix?keyword=whatsapp++2019+free++apk
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c4ad0c5470d84547a3b459b64627caf4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/86319b_9fa9782073234d0cb2961b9e1972dd83.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f244d413efbd4490a8a22d3cdf270720.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/800b88_87157850df0e404482010311f8aeb4f7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7620/5209/files/d_d_5e_fighter_character_sheet.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4bdc6d_8c4b2796230c42a1840357e1e282574c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7603ae_45dc101256df41558f552aa4a1eadfbf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/83f04e_d599e7918a744127808e29454c5fbea2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/9142282406.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3747/4472/files/24278762385.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2630/7480/files/3058176636.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1348/0343/files/gifoba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4343/8244/files/91945252496.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005fa4.bin
980c9ae9110024817e85043be68469a334c1d760c9cfc41452f527ba311e62ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FA4 5040 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070e2.bin
7d8601ac70c7d59ca12c00e1cc4c6398e3d2f895552d50d81168d1f83287b025
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70E2 10820 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000095dc.bin
7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x95DC 4324 bytes