Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65d2c8720e962f30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-07-23 21:30:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: acb79f7eebe8b900e2f364593f722c4f SHA-1: 02b0ea70e672f300cdd5683670c7c774b53e0250 SHA-256: 65d2c8720e962f306c1a1dd50597bd3f38cf32143e921316c80ce9e43439278f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a lure related to an "Sda hymnal with tunes apk" and embeds numerous links, many of which point to benign Shopify domains. However, one critical link redirects to `ttraff.com`, which is identified as malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests it's designed to host a large number of links, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure malicious destinations.

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=sda+hymnal+with+tunes+apk
    • http://files.judithfuchsphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383383/garovaw-fupijubuluv-bogibirew-ririmafiduzut.pdf
    • http://files.oxfordfitfun.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857818/7851725.pdf
    • http://files.flowyoga.co.nz/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695301/sakojamipukinidebaw.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5486/6337/files/kiwavonojorurawaxejap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8414/5049/files/xikal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4492/0734/files/lilutozuniwiropeza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5280/9888/files/netimebazidivivozokenof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2821/8010/files/rovozerafixomeri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4678/0566/files/bogokebakixa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6745/7182/files/3454089640.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mefopevepal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4777/8469/files/somudibefovugedimu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9227/9460/files/degixediro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2977/3982/files/kakeretigomilaje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/74195332560.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_off000061f3.bin
5803d41d6352a0692b2d813912f50223f58e29cda712d53d24ca645ae92c1668
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61F3 5236 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000073b0.bin
760d6a562ba0c3d0ec9394a9a885cf7213d84db57896ffcbff2eeca0ccd08e07
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73B0 10556 bytes