Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a720a1fb2be21d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-08-16 19:20:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b799cb4edf3ae730bd5953542d6e95e3 SHA-1: d44ea07b69269955aa52457194103c901f2c80a2 SHA-256: 5a720a1fb2be21d55b6d0bd63e8693a3bad50977e1f369625eecfc6b6bd1f9ad
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com', which is also listed as an IOC. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links to other PDFs, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=airnav+pro+apk
    • http://tinemop.stiknstop.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453194/2e3ddab3643.pdf
    • http://files.tinykidzofparadiseca.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606630/vimowijumob-fefoxidami.pdf
    • http://files.infusionbaroque.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384156/pogupuzodatex.pdf
    • http://files.componere.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437669/d57708b73fe6991.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6119/6440/files/paludawodasefarumupuwexir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3739/9960/files/kirixakadenekaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4456/8216/files/kenyan_application_letter_sample.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2732/3301/files/luruzut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6756/3418/files/56175932781.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8626/3960/files/wi_fi_sync_iphone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5295/5810/files/gigajaweripam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6202/4605/files/95396807501.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2205/6600/files/list_and_uses_of_medicinal_plants_in_nigeria.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0016/7589/files/80084577853.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5963/4591/files/65481729047.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5757/0207/files/lolulamo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7743/5556/files/59057010158.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000077ae.bin
2010260a3a389d627dac24cb7aa95f1a7a73a8fea43584e55f19675cc53eb682
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77AE 4716 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000087c9.bin
220336aa5a5631631d9f904faf096eceb57a014c839819cb9e174f10e7d36d2f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87C9 10032 bytes