Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c75e2a5f17b0f62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-09-02 13:57:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a6cb414be5ccc7c809d65f159e38a8a3 SHA-1: ebed169d41fdb8cf87b6767173322894d19ffba2 SHA-256: 6c75e2a5f17b0f62bc9566b849823de8b1631b1cf87c61391cf498685109305d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a redirector link to 'ttraff.cc'. This suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a large number of links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates a potential link farm strategy. 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.cc/wix?keyword=balanced+body+allegro+2+pilates+reformer
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9826/6016/files/55811515865.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3942/4663/files/runepejepuwuraleb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9360/5014/files/brown_eyed_girl_guitar_tab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4094/8903/files/vifuwunapes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0344/3361/files/nibepalo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/95909873105.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1657/6424/files/45078500565.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5543/0302/files/81576508125.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4379/0760/files/5850390702.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1604/5222/files/color_blindness_test_chart.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5863/4658/files/32103286627.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a0016_bb6a1e6fd0cd441d9c45416be1e0f841.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_375f589c45604c0d994c9002091b5f0d.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_off000064a7.bin
8a9f86ccecb418aedf3217417a649c1918758f4872a3259be304fad4200e63c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64A7 5896 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078ab.bin
0a80246905b711c973389bf1cda05c24163002685438eac1805597181fda4fea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78AB 11188 bytes