Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 721984ed3a27488b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-08-05 23:51:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f9c7eabfdcc052a7671c065a5d203417 SHA-1: 5885127e5ef8659429851a09b9e1675ae2c5182f SHA-256: 721984ed3a27488b7a16882b64993e63f8052ab850a33c8be12ebf42d8114976
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.cc', which is used to obscure the final destination. 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.cc/pify?keyword=preparation+of+alkanes+with+mechanism+pdf
    • http://files.alystringeryoga.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775137/xozisulug.pdf
    • http://files.rockinluxe.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739202/9c441b344f1.pdf
    • http://files.sccasa.us/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453250/7927498.pdf
    • http://files.troyeducationassociation.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452821/bejava_putugesemuroko_zakok.pdf
    • http://files.plantbacteriology.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454850/piwavavowok_texuvaxodemov.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9040/1687/files/nijelubowutodijedazi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9462/1862/files/rosetta_stone_english_torrents.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3593/5398/files/jenajaxodinad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5417/8216/files/29166663917.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8512/8099/files/sunorobizurasotozegikisa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8915/8554/files/absolute_java_5th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0677/0849/files/66385574351.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2329/3864/files/tablatura_capricho_arabe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2677/6227/files/12197670701.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_off00007572.bin
b407e3abd6f5e2200d9a1f21fb67eba4e8abcb81ddc04f254cee63f7fd9c5b93
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7572 5552 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008838.bin
fdf911d33206bf621552dc635e9bbbcfe6fb40eb905bf35d994c841172ef6cca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8838 10620 bytes