Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6abb7c1db90c22f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.8 KB Created: 2020-08-24 21:10:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 34072483d01382bbfadf12e521164234 SHA-1: bfc949e26c6ba390be3d608c326d8e60daffd0dd SHA-256: 6abb7c1db90c22f0420341f2ede8acf6f095bd69221729bb9694685452f10756
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a deceptive lure, presenting itself as a weather report to encourage users to click on embedded links. One critical heuristic identified a PDF redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com', which is known malicious infrastructure. The document also functions as a link farm, hosting numerous PDFs on Shopify, with the primary redirector URL being the most suspicious IOC. The ML classifier 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=weather+report+of+ganjam+odisha
    • http://files.vanessaarmandtesol.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695408/17f211eda.pdf
    • http://files.rebelliousrheaboutique.shop/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406413/2090860.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9465/4632/files/32544612735.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8611/0110/files/the_greek_tyrants_andrewes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6727/7469/files/sql_basic_commands.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9306/5881/files/alphabetical_series_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2051/7537/files/free_colouring_sheets_for_christmas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7735/2089/files/rhel_6_iso_64_bit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3702/4668/files/97927369804.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2063/9646/files/solawapofinepumiwep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3678/7356/files/vuvazimokegimawes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5588/3175/files/51969615409.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2979/7787/files/desubepapi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5930/5880/files/38289964548.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_off00004de8.bin
e660ab81f0888e47b845869f233eb11f05df5340381bb18eed9fd1e33729732c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4DE8 5512 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006099.bin
58b3cde19e908f59e6416d5f90458552d123b1ec77b68fbba5d6532b605665ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6099 9936 bytes