Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55a19b78fd6b0cf0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.9 KB Created: 2020-08-07 21:17:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1df8d53cbbfb0e9a40f5c4ef0c6f062c SHA-1: 084b693bef7fac4963987004ef432f93429ab12d SHA-256: 55a19b78fd6b0cf0352b9264f569f70b522ccbaf173a763690ce903de79e3367
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is designed to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same text as the URL's keyword parameter, suggesting a lure related to 'small scale pig production'. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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.cc/pify?keyword=small+scale+pig+production+pdf
    • http://zuxagop.asiamitchelltabb.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872055/6872993.pdf
    • http://files.renewyoubodywork.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383949/4171540.pdf
    • http://files.perryyoungblood.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383329/2393668.pdf
    • http://files.hoffmanindustries.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131413678/mubezifuder_wusagafulekane_bexapujukozuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7410/1160/files/vopusupelisunovazifokuxig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4979/4213/files/ginofigo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4203/8182/files/43869426395.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9875/0629/files/fixesazeda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7505/7302/files/50709466344.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5468/6617/files/guxoxapikekixol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3180/4574/files/tower_of_heaven.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6687/4269/files/xorixa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5798/5189/files/ketewumutofi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3239/5426/files/antibioticos_carbapenemicos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8536/4390/files/sipumevamalugus.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_off0000b0b3.bin
5ce3ebcbe2789d4b2e45770f49343e9d6b875334d6e91fef64a82362daa505fe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0B3 5580 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c391.bin
a1e423c1d8cf83f0cff9f671524919ec152b1d26000cb825fcf52059efe47d6c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC391 10372 bytes