Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53448cef045eaba7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.6 KB Created: 2020-08-11 07:17:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a1bc6ffe70f45b935a5dcc64e0afd703 SHA-1: 869813f789149c4a41971f9974f969181c1a6103 SHA-256: 53448cef045eaba7ce70f287d96c3d9d3b3cc093147f7d71fbd0cb59e02b4565
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting seemingly benign PDF files. However, one critical link directs to 'ttraff.com', a known malicious redirector. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector URL and the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicate a clear intent to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.com/pify?keyword=amazing+grace+my+chains+are+gone+pdf+d
    • http://tejar.adairsvillechristianchurch.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437604/6579342.pdf
    • http://gawurimo.centraldrivewaysstratford.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302936/dojux.pdf
    • http://files.ponderosaathleticboosters.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384101/wokum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6975/0940/files/after_series_book_4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2038/1342/files/paulo_coelho_aleph_romana.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9163/9974/files/zofutuwagibid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5936/3483/files/26347522050.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0417/4233/files/jedogop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4746/1788/files/dotozagal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8549/6482/files/57573011683.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7272/4892/files/bhagavad_gita_quotes_kannada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5940/4197/files/wopefipagiwibitidon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6162/2437/files/tumiri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6585/1542/files/16886219667.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2261/3655/files/various_definitions_of_language.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_off00004d0d.bin
b94058054ea78117c6b3a14cee363e5c78eec16318ce992aefb665bff5fda3c8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D0D 5680 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000602c.bin
d78f50d00e358b076c5f02584f778a51aebcaf444a37eadf71491c8f08613255
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x602C 9752 bytes