Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e3f20302245e094…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.9 KB Created: 2020-08-30 09:00:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b2183194e99b96b2d310e59321c2cf58 SHA-1: ba4d547dab133d198ae7e9d347646a5e6f79f2eb SHA-256: 4e3f20302245e094815b8d5c72fff6acb45f15b6b2a09c2f4747998cad9e7a11
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.me'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The presence of numerous other benign-looking Shopify links indicates a potential SEO poisoning or link farm tactic to obscure the malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, and the PDF structure itself does not indicate a specific exploit, leading to an 'unknown family' classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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.me/wix?keyword=%25C3%25A7elik+yumruklar+full+izle+t%25C3%25BCrk%25C3%25A7e+dub
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2811/9706/files/35232743677.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7119/2732/files/10720668626.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3898/8709/files/11796582992.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0337/1935/files/lenavuzedufa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8058/1274/files/journal_en_anglais_gratuit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6026/4096/files/36911121818.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6381/1997/files/arabic_english_font.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6237/8139/files/2013_dodge_dart_review_consumer_reports.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0282/9734/files/61064871937.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/9658/8695/files/99602140849.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0468/9677/5330/files/radavefufeguwuxax.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4364837c90e34bed80cf35080e482e5a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ef41905ea79741ee8c06a51639c6abb8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63d3ad_6193b1ef7ebe443cbdcec61f2d9e7211.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_off00004419.bin
c1ad35063dd867717f45026e13cdb73a2952440a576abc980893a93bf69c6203
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4419 5628 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005685.bin
29c09bfc0b1ada35f5d33b260459e860fd3de21641147c6cf8cb408f4244f0e7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5685 10820 bytes