Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b7a2e45873bed6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2020-08-22 22:20:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d6e43bc1dc4dd7d1684f4afa58afda82 SHA-1: dedf48f4da8808891c9f285966b80b698acf99df SHA-256: 4b7a2e45873bed6e6a9331b529383e240a6a6748d52590b145ac168e953f67ef
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a prominent link that redirects to a malicious URL, disguised as a guide for creating bootable USB drives. This link is identified as a malicious redirector. The document also features a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary malicious activity appears to be the redirection to the ttraff.com domain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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=rufus+create+bootable+usb+flash+drives
    • http://doraxufi.katieriffe.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069935/53df63e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0763/7661/files/46542707647.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/4746/5639/files/99927350845.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0727/0312/files/fuel_cell_engines_mench.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/3347/8566/files/identifying_theme_in_poetry_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0963/7533/files/78723310636.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0361/6165/files/zakapinexivuwazazu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4125/9671/files/gasisinupilaxafitaxule.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1793/4747/files/sasozusurege.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2338/2166/files/16241603264.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5516/1252/files/character_strengths_inventory.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 8

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
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decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xD615 18472 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6543 6032 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A24 5316 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C2E 4140 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00009949.bin
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9949 6148 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off0000a929.bin
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA929 13836 bytes
font_06_sfnt_off0000f3c5.bin
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3C5 2752 bytes
font_07_sfnt_off0000fef7.bin
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEF7 2608 bytes