Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75c4285cae824727…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-09-06 11:12:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c632d7abd2a47b32962ba79cdddc71fc SHA-1: 57ae4437765c4e5c21b747cfa0d07b91cbacb25d SHA-256: 75c4285cae824727c4999e65c3b98449f80fd74c711739776654a0ea3ffea8b5
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded links that point to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.club, disguised with a 'buffalo wild wings menu pdf' keyword. This suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content or phishing pages. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify, which is characteristic of SEO link farm abuse for traffic redirection or SEO manipulation.

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.club/pify?keyword=buffalo+wild+wings+menu+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4166/8772/files/57044655717.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6332/8411/files/78517977135.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5629/0206/files/cheesecake_factory_bread_nutrition_information.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9163/9966/files/annotates_google_drive.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9870/9917/files/research_methods_in_applied_mathematics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7668/9825/files/25670218099.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rixaraxamixenapo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2068/9306/files/59138596057.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2672/7580/files/31083033394.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2827/3569/files/arya_dj_mix_songs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3689/1543/files/befepiv.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/565485_fb5824da39b24e5ab76f5c96e30d3153.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ba3095_89a96e24cc8b4694b2ba03e1e8c90845.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/906e9f_640e7717c57c439697fe7df64ec8a57e.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_off000064cc.bin
eadbbe338067d0a02e489ef4c27a2f7210a8c9028b7ddf99c6e4ee61b77fbbd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64CC 5404 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000773c.bin
2abb8f846cffaac8097da70b3640005d4dea0d584d2aebb262b8049483022ffe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x773C 9588 bytes