Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58d2b1b0c708153e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.0 KB Created: 2020-09-01 03:15:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2bbab003eb9a4477c122345eefd6044e SHA-1: d11410360f77f4376a8105b5688809de5cdb0f0a SHA-256: 58d2b1b0c708153e31d8f76ad6ec71e58573db5315401709b419350138020e4a
154 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.cc'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes the same malicious URL and a benign-looking topic, suggesting a lure. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via embedded links.

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/wix?keyword=online+free+calling+apps+for+android
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1302/0570/files/business_proposal_letter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7206/0573/files/wordpress_themes_2018_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6611/4727/files/kelusuki.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_067fd5a819054fd1a5076994dc77ec65.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2881/4741/files/vazex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3410/8323/files/bexulesorapetitakopo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/52733892229.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1374/1472/files/32187188703.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4976/3487/files/curso_completo_de_economia_em.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8468/5224/files/40293017098.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7047/9766/files/56923142281.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5354/7677/files/selling_skills.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_off00005acd.bin
ca02b82077cac96959db0deba32641bff5f394b901b503047339ba1ecf10724d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5ACD 5348 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d08.bin
8bba2217fcbca0c12b64ca390a417dd9926c04c87483641b5f5c919780d5aebf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D08 10060 bytes