Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 610bb1a4ec0bb6cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.4 KB Created: 2020-08-20 12:45:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ca0100f107ef6001e9a38b3b6dcd52b7 SHA-1: fed9aa1349fdf01aa1b91eba80b548ae4a7e5b6a SHA-256: 610bb1a4ec0bb6cba04202228b6ecddad2c8455e2a25f9f8210c81f6000f58d2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.com'. The document body also contains a link to this malicious URL, disguised with a keyword related to cars. Additionally, the PDF hosts a large number of links to other PDF files, many of which are hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=auto+vs+manual+350z
    • http://files.condzellasfarm.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969555/97c8dd5b0b0479.pdf
    • http://files.a1-therapy.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398357/tufobefuzijizuk.pdf
    • http://limutamob.relsongraciesouthaustin.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637254/90b7677f25.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3705/6414/files/danone_annual_report_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8152/1560/files/81721134104.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9254/8511/files/10093455613.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6055/2085/files/dolerumubenomejimenusokap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4392/8726/files/simple_and_compound_sentences_worksheet_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4751/7341/files/39356493181.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/86788321214.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9180/3801/files/set_theory_venn_diagram.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5243/3557/files/jibeminasovabebimobomuf.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_off00007b9e.bin
87f70fbcf6ab47211bee84df6165c0b33e646af39f350a6b71c0afd8eff83f70
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B9E 5264 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008d7c.bin
96f58323943042c3275c7f266d5e1f67c90f144d782fb5624f3afd43754d4127
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D7C 10644 bytes