Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71fff7fc7b0cfa68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.3 KB Created: 2020-08-07 00:14:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fc692b8525a34266e193ab06d0fa546b SHA-1: 1d6b679c2ab021e3f1df861cb945406c35557f05 SHA-256: 71fff7fc7b0cfa680fa42eae6ddddc19037c0629397f06db12495073c7072ca2
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 URLs that are part of a link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The primary IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to a further stage of the attack.

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=schneider+easypact+mccb+catalogue+pdf
    • http://rexeti.dawnwilcox.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636612/9d33d35573c6b28.pdf
    • http://files.robertconroybooks.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738550/vamimuputuborisexon.pdf
    • http://rizida.thewildchildtotshop.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398560/7661290.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9107/3947/files/47363986355.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2603/9463/files/79255489938.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8317/7885/files/butefude.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4473/2065/files/kifagemezovitigulo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8793/7179/files/gofafatabox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0091/2282/files/54792122252.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2137/7434/files/notedemovusopelopo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5448/8990/files/naruto_shippuden_kissanime.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0589/5075/files/tibup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7048/7712/files/subewopadeguxom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3942/4669/files/95656680719.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
stream_004_off00005b9b.bin
e9c9651070e427a410b1eb451f8f5c7c8d83699f948767fc738bf9f21a4a601a
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x5B9B 12324 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off000047a1.bin
470e6cf5958f15ccdccc33ecfa890c88d20fdbaacb3c94dda2e781de19060a65
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47A1 5912 bytes