Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5333db0ef2bad4df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-08-02 12:58:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f382ab441b804ff0edd801962bbc24c7 SHA-1: d209254680acae3f84ca10603e2f0b1f0a3be61a SHA-256: 5333db0ef2bad4df6d86569a6b5f779b940261b6b60e541b99dbed43611006f8
152 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.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of a malicious redirector suggests the document's primary purpose is to lure users to a harmful external resource, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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/pify?keyword=marmoset+toolbag+3
    • http://files.childenrichmentcenter.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739404/2121209.pdf
    • http://files.monicabasile.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856479/2854647.pdf
    • http://files.topranger.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453620/litaminuso.pdf
    • http://files.katiegage.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383750/zaxabububuji_kunupeve_xotan_xumuvilakaveb.pdf
    • http://files.murphyelementary.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739826/3973513.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1391/5303/files/57774268791.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7113/4106/files/gurivawepamixo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6239/4008/files/python_modules_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7704/9247/files/doxoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1143/1838/files/zepimi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6642/4470/files/convex_optimization_boyd_solution.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2660/4447/files/20385206740.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1275/7400/files/38208029096.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3401/6924/files/43522508449.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8213/0332/files/how_to_host_your_website_on_github.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9252/3675/files/84245469359.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1724/8672/files/kaladaziwuj.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_off00005c56.bin
1d723ecfc3d675eee448fa5fd4e344f7aef1ed6ce6c52c22576e4a6ff0541d75
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C56 5316 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e62.bin
9637ef4de28613ae47f2194752d362871e09d931fb05103f4827c93c69daf16c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E62 10080 bytes