Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6df82ff0ebb49c3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-21 06:21:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 942e1d5fa106947f3ef11e217c1647ac SHA-1: 2104ba0c40427c87c62c527652eb23e842ad1a28 SHA-256: 6df82ff0ebb49c3b1aeb325e274644b752d3da55c7f7b8071a059875f00075bf
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and appears to be a lure for free content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm used to distribute malicious content.

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=coffee+bar+song+video+free
    • http://files.bridgingthegapmovementllc.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607374/surafiriwiri-jised.pdf
    • http://files.e3educate.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681409/migigarawe.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2186/8960/files/partnership_account_format_o_level.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1323/2024/files/digikita.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2537/5130/files/door_county_fishing_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6761/3087/files/netaluxisevutoritujowilo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5669/2390/files/teachers_day_quotes_in_english_2019.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9836/5340/files/zatomezisefixasagerubonat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0157/7625/files/linusu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/5170/0644/files/mizusigusa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9225/0525/files/16927509133.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6219/7400/files/50945738352.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_off00006859.bin
20872b2b5f5e0f88afd813e6104c923987edd368ae71c79d7a6437567342646c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6859 5148 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000079ef.bin
746055281b9582e0149fd73b2e7810a0e855334e69285922dcbf95458f36e214
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79EF 10544 bytes