Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66ae2af9118df765…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 05:54:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 479f1da2d53f0272cdf1c0da00fff386 SHA-1: b82adc573310467d9caaaeaace34a9b08de0468d SHA-256: 66ae2af9118df765dae56e4ed9285759b58f6e9727f6042591d987ab989cbdc2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text referencing 'The ultimate fce writing guide pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The presence of numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify, further supports a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute the malicious URL.

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/wix?keyword=the+ultimate+fce+writing+guide+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9635/8565/files/language_teaching_approaches_and_methods.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2441/4882/files/calendario_2020_colombia_con_festivos_para_imprimir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9454/0452/files/46205940548.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/33435760041.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2572/6625/files/85393307639.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de60da_845147b227594383ba545054eb44c0b5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2281/0263/files/ibps_po_recruitment_2019_notification.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8506/8456/files/pujuz.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6cf392_8476b88406b34807a3eefe40c1cd5188.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_57137dab6b5e4bcf8e4a879fcffdeab8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b02aa0ade46f4f23bf2127895aa77f3b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f4de5e_2ff303d112244dc7a3637df7d9d1736b.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_off0000d2e1.bin
d232866fb3a4b7b0e378d2c663f59eef7647c55d717de77379a312c9096c7362
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2E1 5432 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e541.bin
ddd7b17c9228b9fdb497e2c2db24e47fe0b402dad5f667b56683ff349a1d3d73
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE541 10120 bytes