Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74cb3840957e6405…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-08-29 07:45:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eddda6446fe2bbd31c40c643729e9e8a SHA-1: d45441d22b41e16d970c9db9f3a32c056dc66f92 SHA-256: 74cb3840957e64053ae30ae989fe7264921155c839a5a6a6c59792afe7643641
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which are designed to appear as benign PDF files hosted on Shopify. However, one critical link points to 'ttraff.com', which is flagged as a known malicious redirector. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt where users are directed to malicious infrastructure under the guise of accessing PDF documents. 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/wix?keyword=pensamiento+matematico+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2214/5943/files/roomy_bookmarks_toolbar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8117/9048/files/xozokifipopotomed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/duwidomasugubelufatabu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/welilavuruwad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3185/4247/files/37123406057.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7334/7488/files/30418220267.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9314/8313/files/zikiwiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5249/1159/files/37684751029.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0507/4838/files/statistical_sampling_methods.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1801/8203/files/xovijun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6704/0154/files/lajapunirowogiselo.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_off00005f97.bin
85e27e4b1e6c9e4c2690dcbf15715aa9493799fddbe60674f05647a0d8aabbeb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F97 5172 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007119.bin
e2c71fd79c038acb69f3f1ac1890cb4ff539354cb331e13153befbd7fec4570d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7119 10884 bytes