Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b4fbcd16d32c9d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.8 KB Created: 2020-08-02 16:04:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e7f0d2ec284ebff5bafb85946cbf1d11 SHA-1: daf52a771bbe98d83542acde63930a39b9209e1f SHA-256: 6b4fbcd16d32c9d799c630bf71060764cc4b4fc142368300df62c380cbf2a051
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, but one critical link redirects to 'ttraff.com', a known malicious redirector. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic designed to funnel users to malicious infrastructure. 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=getting+things+done+pdf+2015
    • http://files.4energia.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453132/1575242.pdf
    • http://files.villa-anggrek.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379371/difisudenaborex.pdf
    • http://files.bondipestcontrol.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380005/mamidu_kobilowo.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0034/0381/files/91248439343.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0643/5232/files/87341461203.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1703/6198/files/47024638157.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3477/1610/files/dark_souls_3_mule.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3304/2839/files/sujogulasigon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9812/9059/files/79438751925.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2942/2499/files/6928772993.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7140/6241/files/arch_add_user.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4121/6917/files/cover_letter_ucsd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9032/2342/files/mabavuzirarebovelem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4291/2926/files/dijazowatuvepagabupujudu.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007193.bin
f87a89092aaaa55f38ed23f0f1567784673c32ee803108ebabfaf4e4adb2c5c1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7193 7964 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008bfc.bin
71f473c24e041006b4c1ce834b49f1209e5b813e6841e3d698d7815893d44d2e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BFC 5448 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009e9f.bin
55a6ebb596386172018bb6098ee9bdf97a88c88abe17b9c2f5d57ccad01082f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E9F 10528 bytes